Sentence examples for Euripides from high-quality English sources.

• Unlike Euripides, Racine allows Iphigenia…

• He quoted the Bible, Thomas Jefferson, and Euripides, until Belshe finally touched his elbow and said, “Just sit down, Dad.”

• Archaeologists have found papyruses inscribed with parts of lost plays by Sophocles and Euripides in a Greco-Roman rubbish tip in Egypt.

• Australian director Simon Stone’s production of Euripides’ tragedy Medea, created for Ivo van Hove’s International Theatre Amsterdam, will be relayed to a live audience in Adelaide’s Her Majesty’s Theatre.

• The ancients knew of 92 plays composed by Euripides.

• The third of the great tragic writers was Euripides.

• Only one traditional satyr play, Euripides’ Cyclops, survives.

• It is possible to reconstruct only the sketchiest biography of Euripides.

Use Euripides in a sentence.

• Scaliger (1484–1558), who knew both Latin and Greek, preferred Seneca to Euripides.

• Notwithstanding this, Euripides’ lyrics at times have considerable charm and sweetness.

• This version is found in Euripides’ Bellerophontes and is parodied in Aristophanes’ Peace.

• Aeschylus’ Oresteia showed its dramatic potentialities, and these were further exploited by Sophocles and Euripides.

• The fame and popularity of Euripides eclipsed that of Aeschylus and Sophocles in the cosmopolitan Hellenistic period.

• Furthermore, Euripides makes his characters express the doubts, the problems and controversies, and in general the ideas and feelings of his own time.

• The chief structural peculiarities of Euripides’ plays are his use of prologues and of the providential appearance of a god (deus ex machina) at the play’s end.

• Translated into blank verse, with the collaboration of Francis Kinwelmersh, from Lodovico Dolce’s Giocasta, the work derives ultimately from Euripides’ Phoenissae.

Euripides sentence examples

• Euripides’ plays exhibit his iconoclastic, rationalizing attitude toward both religious belief and the ancient legends and myths that formed the traditional subject matter for Greek drama.

• His translations from the Greek—particularly Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound (1947), Xenophon’s Anabasis (1949), and Euripides’ Hippolytus (1950) and Helen (1951)—are elegant, clear, and direct.

• The Suppliants of Euripides contains much in apparent praise of democratic institutions, but it also includes some harsh words for the kind of politician that the democracy tended to produce.

• Misogyny is altogether too simple an explanation here, although Euripides’ reputation in his own day was that of a woman hater, and a play by Aristophanes, Women at the Thesmophoria, comically depicts the indignation of the Athenian women at their portrayal by Euripides.