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Euripides
Euripides, marble herm copied from a Greek original, c. 340â330 bce; in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples.
The parents of the Greek dramatist Euripides were his mother, Cleito, and his father, Mnesarchus (or Mnesarchides).1
While some traditionsâoften mocked by the contemporary playwright Aristophanesâsuggested that his mother was a greengrocer who sold herbs, there is stronger indirect evidence indicating that Euripides was born into a well-off family.1