Author · Greece
Euripides
Died in -406
Euripides was born around 480 BCE in Salamis and was, according to tradition, a pupil of the philosophers of his time, among them Socrates. He presented his first tragedy in 455 or 454 and won the competition only four or five times, far behind his two rivals. He wrote ninety-two plays according to the most widespread count, of which seventeen tragedies and one satyr play have come down to us, more than for any other tragedian. Towards the end of his life he withdrew to the court of King Archelaus of Macedon, where he died in 406.