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Euripides Heracles

Euripides, Heracles (Ἡρακλῆς). Digital edition based on: Euripidis Fabulae. Gilbert Murray, ed. Oxford. Clarendon Press (1902). Original SGML digital edition by The Perseus Project, G. Crane, ed. This derived edition, C. Blackwell, Furman University. 2026. Source texts and code for this page (and others) on GitHub. Licensed CC-BY-NC. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg009:

Table of Contents

Passages 1–274
Passages 275–554
Passages 555–748
Passages 750–1015
Passages 1016–1162
Passages 1163–1339
Passages 1340–1428

Euripides

Euripides (c. 480–406 BC) was an Athenian playwright and one of the three principal tragedians of classical Greece, alongside Aeschylus and Sophocles. Born in the deme of Phlya near Athens, he produced approximately 92 plays over a career spanning from his debut in 455 BC until his death, with 18 or 19 surviving intact today.

Euripides competed 22 times at the City Dionysia festival, securing only four first-place victories—three posthumously in 405 BC with productions including Bacchae and Iphigenia at Aulis—reflecting mixed contemporary reception despite his enduring influence.

In his final years, Euripides accepted patronage from King Archelaus of Macedon, composing works like Archelaus there before dying in 406 BC, after which his reputation surged, with Aristophanes and later audiences praising his rhetorical skill and emotional depth.

Heracles

Heracles (Ἡρακλῆς) (c. 416 BCE) shows the hero returning from the underworld to save his family, only to be driven mad by Hera and slaughter them, then rescued by Theseus, probing heroism's fragility.