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Euripides Research Paper

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Euripides: One of Greece’s Best Tragic Playwrights Euripides is well known as one of the best Greek tragic playwrights, most notably known for writing Medea, The Bacchae, Cyclops, Hippolytus, The Trojan Women and many more. During his lifetime, Euripides composed roughly 92 plays, 19 of which still exist today. Euripides was born in 480 B.C.E, in Attica and sources suggest that he was brought up in a well-off family, though there are many different accounts of his family background. Some sources claim his family was very wealthy, while others claim he is from the working class specifically because he made references that his mother was a greengrocer in one of his plays. He lived in Athens most of his life, though he spent a lot of his time

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