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Euripides

c. 480 BCE–c. 406 BCE · Athens

Euripides (c. 480 - 406 BCE) was one of the three great tragic playwrights of classical Athens, alongside Aeschylus and Sophocles. More of his plays survive than of either, including "Medea," "The Bacchae," "Hippolytus," and "The Trojan Women." He was known for psychologically complex characters - especially strong and suffering women - a questioning attitude toward the gods and traditional values, and a realism that influenced drama for centuries.

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About Athens

Athens, the capital of Greece since 1834, was the leading intellectual centre of the classical Greek world. Socrates taught there, and four major philosophical schools took root in the city: Plato's Academy, founded around 387 BCE, Aristotle's Lyceum, the Stoa of Zeno, and Epicurus' Garden. Under Hellenistic and Roman rule Athens remained a place of study that drew students from across the empire; in the 4th century CE the Christian writers Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nazianzus studied there together, while Neoplatonist teachers kept lecturing. Emperor Justinian's ban on pagan teaching of philosophy in 529 is generally taken to mark the end of the city's ancient history.

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