How many plays by Euripides have survived?

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Ancient sources indicate that Euripides composed 92 plays during his career. Of these, 19 plays are considered extant, a figure that includes one work of disputed authorship.1

The survival of these works is attributed to his immense popularity during the Hellenistic period, when his accessible realism and emotional depth made his drama more appealing to audiences than the works of his contemporaries, Aeschylus and Sophocles.2