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Euripides
Euripides, marble herm copied from a Greek original, c. 340â330 bce; in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples.
Euripides was a prominent Greek dramatist who lived from approximately 484 BCE to 406 BCE. Born in Athens, he spent the majority of his life there before moving to Macedonia in 408 BCE, where he died two years later.12