c. 480–406 BCE · tragic poet
Euripides
Εὐριπίδης
Known · AttestedNot attested in Alexandria.
The most read of the tragedians in the Hellenistic world. Nineteen plays survive, nine of them by the chance survival of one volume of an alphabetical edition, a trace of how the Alexandrians ordered his works.
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On the shelves
- Euripides, Tragedies · c. 455–406 BCE · Survives in large part
Moments
- c. 246–222 BCE · A story told by Galen: the books from the ships Legend: told story
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Sources (2)
- [Plutarch], Lives of the Ten Orators 841f
- R. Pfeiffer, History of Classical Scholarship from the Beginnings to the End of the Hellenistic Age (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968)