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Euripides

c. 480 BCE–c. 406 BCE · Athens

Euripides (c. 480 - 406 BCE) was one of the three great tragic playwrights of classical Athens, alongside Aeschylus and Sophocles. More of his plays survive than of either, including "Medea," "The Bacchae," "Hippolytus," and "The Trojan Women." He was known for psychologically complex characters - especially strong and suffering women - a questioning attitude toward the gods and traditional values, and a realism that influenced drama for centuries.

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About Athens

The intellectual capital of the Greek world, where Socrates questioned in the agora and four great schools—Plato's Academy, Aristotle's Lyceum, the Stoa, and Epicurus' Garden—took root within a single square mile.

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Aeschylus, Themistocles, Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Sophocles, Herodotus

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