Euripides

(c.480 BC–406 BC)

Εὐριπίδης

Works:

• Άλκηστις (Greek)

◊ Alcestis (English)

• Ανδρομάχη (Greek)

• Ηλέκτρα (Greek)

◊ Electra (English)

◊ Elektra (Swedish)

◊ Helena (Swedish)

◊ Hippolytus; The Bacchae (English)

• Ιφιγένεια εν Αυλίδι (Greek)

◊ Iphigeneia i Aulis (Swedish)

◊ Iphigenia in Tauris (English)

• Ίων (Greek)

• Κύκλωψ (Greek)

◊ Medea (English)

• Ορέστης (Greek)

◊ Orestes (Swedish)

◊ The Bacchae (English)

◊ The Rhesus (English)

◊ The Tragedies of Euripides (English)

◊ The Trojan women (English)

Euripides in Art:

Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867)
L’apothéose d’Homère
1827
Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

 

Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867)
Les Tragiques grecs
1866
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Angers

 

 

Euripides in Film:

Electra
1962
Director: Michael Cacoyannis
Starring: Irene Papas, Giannis Fertis

 

 

Medea
1969
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Starring: Maria Callas, Massimo Girotti

 

 

The Trojan Women
1971
Director: Michael Cacoyannis
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave

 

 

Iphigenia
1977
Director: Michael Cacoyannis
Starring: Irene Papas, Tatiana Papamoschou

 

Born c.480 BC Salamis (Greece)
Died 406 BC Pella (Macedonia)
Occupation Playwright Poet Writer

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