In the seventeenth century, Racine expressed admiration for Sophocles but was more influenced by Euripides ( e. g. Iphigenia at Aulis and Hippolytus were the models for his plays Iphigénie and Phèdre ).

Some of the others include Troades by Euripides, Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare, Iphigenia and Polyxena by Samuel Coster, Palamedes by Joost van den Vondel and Les Troyens by Hector Berlioz.

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 ).

Menelaus appears as a character in a number of 5th-century Greek tragedies: Sophocles ' Ajax, and Euripides ' Andromache, Helen, Orestes, Iphigenia at Aulis, and The Trojan Women.

Scene from the tragedy Iphigenia in Tauris by Euripides.

Badham published editions of Euripides, Helena and Iphigenia in Tauris ( 1851 ), Ion ( 1851 ); Plato's Philebus ( 1855, 1878 ); Laches and Eutzydemus ( 1865 ), Phaedrus ( 1851 ), Symposium ( 1866 ) and De Platonis Epistolis ( 1866 ).

* Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis.

* Euripides, Euripides II: The Cyclops and Heracles, Iphigenia in Tauris, Helen ( The Complete Greek Tragedies ) ( Vol 4 ), University Of Chicago Press ; 1 edition ( April 15, 2002 ).

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.

Euripides has two stories about Iphigenia.

In Euripides ’ Iphigenia at Aulis, Agamemnon is told by Calchas that in order for the winds to allow him to sail to Troy, Agamemnon must sacrifice Iphigenia to Artemis.

Euripides ’ character of Iphigenia holds many complex meanings that stem from her decision to willingly sacrifice herself.

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

The earliest known accounts of the death of Iphigenia are included in Euripides ' Iphigenia at Aulis and Iphigenia in Tauris, both Athenian tragedies of the fifth century BCE set in the Heroic Age.

The reason for many discrepancies in the telling of the myth is because playwrights such as Euripides modified the stories about Iphigenia to make them more palatable for the audiences and make sequels using the same characters.

* Iphigenia at Aulis, play by Euripides.

* Iphigenia in Tauris, play by Euripides.

The genealogy offered in the earliest literary reference, Euripides ' Iphigenia in Tauris, would place him two generations before the Trojan War, making him the great-grandfather of the Atreides, Agamemnon and Menelaus.

* Euripides ' The Bacchae and Iphigeneia at Aulis are performed posthumously as part of a tetralogy at the City Dionysia festival and win first prize.

It premiered posthumously at the Theatre of Dionysus in 405 BC as part of a tetralogy that also included Iphigeneia at Aulis and Alcmaeon in Corinth, and which Euripides ' son or nephew probably directed.

According to reports about Euripides ' lost play Telephus, he went to Aulis pretending to be a beggar ; there he asked Clytemnaestra, the wife of Agamemnon, what he should do to be healed.

worked on the plays by Euripides, publishing in 1916 a translation of choruses from Iphigeneia at Aulis, in 1919 a translation of choruses from Iphigeneia at Aulis and Hippolytus, an adaptation of Hippolytus called Hippolytus Temporizes ( 1927 ), a translation of choruses from The Bacchae and Hecuba ( 1931 ), and Euripides ' Ion ( 1937 ) a loose translation of Ion.

Iphigenia in Aulis (, Iphigeneia en Aulidi ; variously translated, including the Latin Iphigenia in Aulide ) is the last extant work of the playwright Euripides.

The New York World Premiere of this version of " Iphigenia 2. 0 " was originally produced by Signature Theatre Company, New York City, and was described in the New York Times review as a " proudly unfaithful and rather tedious version of Euripides ' " Iphigenia at Aulis.

His versions of the Oedipus of Sophocles and of the Iphigeneia at Aulis of Euripides were rewarded by the Hungarian Academy, of which in 1838 he was elected honorary member.

In 1846 she returned to Dublin to perform in Euripides ' Iphigenia at Aulis, which proved as popular as her Antigone had been the previous year.

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.

By the time of Euripides, the islands were identified with the Echinades: in Euripedes ' Iphigeneia at Aulis ( 405 BCE ), the chorus of women from Chalcis have spied the Hellenes ' fleet and seen Eurytus who " led the Taphian warriors with the white oar-blades, the subjects of Meges, son of Phyleus, who had left the isles of the Echinades, where sailors cannot land.

Euripides ( in Iphigeneia at Aulis ) identifies the Echinades with the islands of Taphos ( Taphiae Insulae ).

In Greek mythology, Eurystheus ( pronounced, meaning " broad strength " in folk etymology and pronounced ) was king of Tiryns, one of three Mycenaean strongholds in the Argolid, although other authors including Homer and Euripides cast him as ruler of Argos: Sthenelus was his father and the " victorious horsewoman " Nicippe his mother, and he was a grandson of the hero Perseus, as was his opponent Heracles.

In Euripides ' play Elecktra, Orestes questions an oracle who calls upon him to kill his mother, and wonders if the oracle was not from Apollo, but some malicious alastor.

However, according to Euripides ' Ion, in which she is a prominent character, Creusa was mother of Ion by Apollo, while Xuthus was infertile so he accepted Ion as his own son.

Finally, in Pausanias ' account, Hippocoon was Oebalus ' eldest natural son, his mother being Batea ( or, according to scholiasts on Euripides and Homer, Hippocoon's mother was called Nicostrate ).

This is the situation in Euripides ' Antiope, which turns upon the recognition of mother and sons and their rescue of her.

Orestes (, Orestēs ) ( 408 BCE ) is an Ancient Greek play by Euripides that follows the events of Orestes after he had murdered his mother.

Euripides ' play Helen, written in the late 5th century BC, is the earliest source to report the most familiar account of Helen's birth: that, although her putative father was Tyndareus, she was actually Zeus ' daughter.

There are various other versions of his transgression: The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and pseudo-Apollodoran Bibliotheke state that his offense was that he was a rival of Zeus for Semele, his mother's sister, whereas in Euripides ' Bacchae he has boasted that he is a better hunter than Artemis:

A scholiast on Homer relates that Hecuba's parents were either Dymas and the nymph Eunoe or Cisseus and Telecleia ; the latter option would make her a full sister of Theano, which is also noted by the scholiast on Euripides cited above.

Astydameia is briefly mentioned by a scholiast on Euripides as the daughter of Strophius and Cydragora and sister of Pylades.

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.

While Paris inspected them, each attempted with her powers to bribe him ; Hera offered to make him king of Europe and Asia, Athena offered wisdom and skill in war, and Aphrodite, who had the Charites and the Horai to enhance her charms with flowers and song ( according to a fragment of the Cypria quoted by Athenagoras ), offered the world's most beautiful woman ( Euripides, Andromache, l. 284, Helena l. 676 ).

Alternatively, in Euripides ' version, Hippolytus, Phaedra's nurse told Hippolytus of her mistress's love and he swore he would not reveal the nurse as his source of information.

According to the tragic poet Euripides, Medea continued her revenge, murdering her two children by Jason.

Medea's deliberate murder of her children, then, appears to be Euripides ' invention although some scholars believe Neophron created this alternate tradition.

Though the early literary presentations of Medea are lost, Apollonius of Rhodes, in a redefinition of epic formulas, and Euripides, in a dramatic version for a specifically Athenian audience, each employed the figure of Medea ; Seneca offered yet another tragic Medea, of witchcraft and potions, and Ovid rendered her portrait three times for a sophisticated and sceptical audience in Imperial Rome.

a ) Menelaus resolved to kill Helen but Euripides tells us that, when he found her, her striking beauty prompted him to drop his sword and take her back to his ship “ to punish her at Sparta ”, as he claimed, but in reality she got away with it.

When the Sirens were given a name of their own they were considered the daughters of the river god Achelous, fathered upon Terpsichore, Melpomene, Sterope, or Chthon ( the Earth ; in Euripides ' Helen 167, Helen in her anguish calls upon " Winged maidens, daughters of the Earth ").

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.

However, Euripides wrote in his tragedy Ion that the Athenian queen Creusa had inherited this vial from her ancestor Erichthonios, who was a snake himself and had received the vial from Athena.

In the version put forth by Euripides in his play Helen, Hera fashioned a likeness of Helen ( eidolon, εἴδωλον ) out of clouds at Zeus ' request, Hermes took her to Egypt, and Helen never went to Troy, spending the entire war in Egypt.

According to Homer, Hecuba was the daughter of King Dymas of Phrygia, but Euripides and Virgil write of her as the daughter of the Thracian king Cisseus.

Another tradition, followed by Sophocles in his play Ajax and by Euripides in the lost play Kressai, was that Catreus found Aerope in bed with a slave and sent her to Nauplius to be drowned.

Extant plays by Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides on the tale of Orestes and Electra do not include her as a character.