Euripides: Quick Facts

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Born	c.484 BCE • Athens • ancient Greece
Died	406 BCE • Macedonia • ancient Greece
Notable Works	“Alcestis” • “Andromache” • “Bacchae” • “Children of Heracles” • “Cyclops” • “Electra” • “Hecuba” • “Helen” • “Hippolytus” • “Ion” • “Iphigenia Among the Taurians” • “Iphigenia at Aulis” • “Medea” • “Orestes” • “Phoenician Women” • “Suppliants” • “The Madness of Heracles” • “Trojan Women”

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