After Andromeda's death, as Euripides had promised Athena at the end of his Andromeda, produced in 412 BCE, the goddess placed her among the constellations in the northern sky, near Perseus and Cassiopeia ; the constellation Andromeda, so known since antiquity, is named after her.

It is said to be the birthplace of Ajax and Euripides, the latter's birth being popularly placed on the day of the battle.

Sophocles and Euripides ( and in more modern times, Corneille ) made the story the subject of tragedies, and its incidents were represented in numerous ancient works of art.

The story of Medea's revenge on Jason is told with devastating effect by Euripides in his tragedy Medea.

Proteus of Egypt is mentioned in an alternate version of the story of Helen of Troy in the tragedy Helen of Euripides ( produced in 412 BC ).

However, in Euripides ' lost version of the story, it appears that Antigone survives.

In the beginning of Euripides ' Phoenissae, Jocasta recalls the story of Oedipus.

The story of Orestes was the subject of the Oresteia of Aeschylus ( Agamemnon, Choephori, Eumenides ), of the Electra of Sophocles, and of the Electra, Iphigeneia in Tauris, Iphigenia at Aulis ( in which he appears as an infant carried by Clytemnestra ), and Orestes, of Euripides.

The story of Polyeidos and Glaucus was the subject of a lost play of Euripides, his Bellerophon, and of one by Aeschylus, and Sophocles ' lost The Mantises.

This story was probably the subject of Euripides lost Alcmaeon in Corinth, which was produced posthumously.

In Euripides ’ other story about Iphigenia, Iphigenia in Tauris, the play takes place after the sacrifice and after Orestes has killed Clytemnestra and Aegisthus.

Pylades accompanies Orestes, but does not speak in other versions of Orestes ' and Electra's revenge story: Sophocles ' Electra and Euripides ' Electra.

According to the tradition followed by Sophocles in his play Ajax and by Euripides in his lost play Cretan Women ( Kressai ), Catreus found Aerope in bed with a slave and handed her over to Nauplius to be drowned, but Nauplius spared Aerope's life and she married Atreus, the son of Pelops, and king of Mycenae, though in the version of the story used by Euripides, she married Pleisthenes instead.

His story was told by Aeschylus in his Seven against Thebes, by Euripides, and by the Roman poet Statius.

The Frogs tells the story of the god Dionysus, who, despairing of the state of Athens ' tragedians, travels to Hades to bring the playwright Euripides back from the dead.

Two versions of this story appear in Euripides ' play Hippolytus and Seneca the Younger's play Phaedra.

( From some ancient Greek paintings many people believe Ajax raped Cassandra, and the verb that Euripides used to describe Ajax's " taking " of Cassandra can also be translated as rape, but it does not directly say that in this story ) What follows shows how much the Trojan women have suffered as their grief is compounded when the Greeks dole out additional deaths and divide their shares of women.

The Songs of Kings was a novel published in 2002 by Barry Unsworth that retells the story of Iphigenia at Aulis told by the Greek tragic poet Euripides.

Troezen is also the setting of the Euripides tragedy Hippolytus, which recounts the story of the eponymous son of Theseus who becomes the subject of the love of his stepmother, Phaedra.

When Sophocles heard that, he composed an epigram against Euripides in the following sense, alluding to the story of the North Wind and the Sun, and at the same time satirising Euripides ' adulteries:

Athenaeus also claimed that Euripides took a line from Achaeus, while Aristophanes quotes him twice, in The Frogs and The Wasps.

Housman continued pursuing classical studies independently and published scholarly articles on such authors as Horace, Propertius, Ovid, Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles.

Whereas Socrates was eventually put on trial and executed as a corrupting influence, Euripides chose a voluntary exile in old age, dying in Macedonia.

Recent scholarship casts doubt on ancient biographies of Euripides.

He became a recluse, making a home for himself in a cave on Salamis ( The Cave of Euripides ), " where he built an impressive library and pursued daily communion with the sea and sky ", eventually retiring to the " rustic court " of King Archelaus in Macedonia, there dying in 406 BC.

The identity of the threesome is neatly underscored by a patriotic account of their roles during Greece's great victory over Persia at the Battle of SalamisAeschylus fought there, Sophocles was just old enough to celebrate the victory in a boys ' chorus and Euripides was born on the very day of the battle.

After a debate between the two deceased bards, the god brings Aeschylus back to life as more useful to Athens on account of his wisdom, rejecting Euripides as merely clever.

Euripides and other playwrights accordingly composed more and more arias for accomplished actors to sing and this tendency becomes more marked in his later plays: tragedy was a " living and ever-changing genre " ( other changes in his work are touched on in the previous section and in Chronology ; a list of his plays is given in Extant plays below ).

Most of the big innovations in tragedy were made by Aeschylus and Sophocles and yet " Euripides made innovations on a smaller scale that have impressed some critics as cumulatively leading to a radical change of direction.

August Wilhelm's Vienna lectures on dramatic art and literature went through four editions between 1809 and 1846 and, in them, he opined that Euripides " not only destroyed the external order of tragedy but missed its entire meaning ," a view that came to influence Friedrich Nietzsche, who however seems not to have known the Euripidean plays at all well.

* The Greeks ( 1980 ), a cycle of ten plays adapted by John Barton and Kenneth Cavander from the works of Homer, Euripides, Aeschylus and Sophocles, on the Oresteia legend. The Greeks would also have very great orgys, blowjobs.

He goes on to quote Euripides at some length, writing in praise of wives.

According to some versions of the legend, the hunting goddess Artemis replaced her at the very last moment with a deer on the altar, and took Iphigenia to Tauris ( See Iphigenia en Tauris by Euripides ).

* Chico Buarque and Paulo Pontes, Gota d ' Água ( musical play set in 1970s Rio de Janeiro, based on Euripides, 1975 )

Such notables as Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes established forms still relied on by their modern counterparts.

According to Euripides ' Helen, after Menelaus dies, he is reunited with Helen on the Isle of the Blessed.

Euripides described this ritual purification ceremony, starting first with the priest Ion dancing on the highest point of Mount Parnassus, going about his duties within the temple, and sprinkling the temple floor with holy water.

And in Hyginus ' version of the legend, founded apparently on a tragedy by some follower of Euripides, Antigone, on being handed over by Creon to her lover Haemon to be slain, is secretly carried off by him and concealed in a shepherd's hut, where she bears him a son, Maeon.

From its obscure origins in the theaters of Athens 2, 500 years ago, from which there survives only a fraction of the work of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, through its singular articulations in the works of Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, Racine, and Schiller, to the more recent naturalistic tragedy of Strindberg, Beckett's modernist meditations on death, loss and suffering, and Müller's postmodernist reworkings of the tragic canon, tragedy has remained an important site of cultural experimentation, negotiation, struggle, and change.

Nine of Seneca's tragedies survive, all of which are fabula crepidata ( tragedies adapted from Greek originals ); his Phaedra, for example, was based on Euripides ' Hippolytus.

Jean Racine's tragedies — inspired by Greek myths, Euripides, Sophocles and Seneca — condensed their plot into a tight set of passionate and duty-bound conflicts between a small group of noble characters, and concentrated on these characters ' double-binds and the geometry of their unfulfilled desires and hatreds.

They are not all based on Greek tragedies, they have a five act form and differ in many respects from extant Attic drama, and whilst the influence of Euripides on some of these works is considerable, so is the influence of Virgil and Ovid.

R. P Winnington-Ingram's review in 1948 praises the work of Euripides, he writes: " On its poetical and dramatic beauties he writes with charm and insight ; on more complex themes he shows equal mastery.