{"slug": "euripides", "label": "Euripides", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euripides", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48305", "qid": "Q48305", "description": "Classical Athenian playwright", "entries": 18, "years": 17, "span": [-484, 391], "span_label": ["485 BCE", "391 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 6}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 6}, {"title": "Births", "count": 2}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "athens", "label": "Athens", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "ancient-greece", "label": "Ancient Greece", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "earth", "label": "Earth", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "library-of-alexandria", "label": "Library of Alexandria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sophocles", "label": "Sophocles", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -484, "year_label": "485 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Some sources place the birth of Euripides in this year, though the more traditional date is 480.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360598373#Births", "title": "485 BC", "revid": 1360598373, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": -479, "year_label": "480 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": "September 22", "text": "September 22 (traditional date) – Euripides, Greek playwright (d. 406 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342344662#Births", "title": "480 BC", "revid": 1342344662, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": -454, "year_label": "455 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Euripides presents his earliest known tragedy, Peliades, in the Athenian festival of Dionysia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1317824167#Literature", "title": "455 BC", "revid": 1317824167, "section": "Events › By topic › Literature"}}, {"year": -440, "year_label": "441 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The Greek playwright, Euripides, wins his first victory in a dramatic festival.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247481933#Literature", "title": "441 BC", "revid": 1247481933, "section": "Events › By topic › Literature"}}, {"year": -437, "year_label": "438 BCE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "Telephus, a play by the renowned playwright Euripides, is produced in Athens. This tragedy did not survive to modern times.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326570904#Greece", "title": "438 BC", "revid": 1326570904, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -437, "year_label": "438 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The Greek playwright Euripides' play Alcestis is performed in the Dionysia, an Athenian dramatic festival.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326570904#Literature", "title": "438 BC", "revid": 1326570904, "section": "Events › By topic › Literature"}}, {"year": -430, "year_label": "431 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Euripides' play Medea wins third prize at the Dionysia, the famous Athenian dramatic festival.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364036128#Literature", "title": "431 BC", "revid": 1364036128, "section": "Events › By topic › Literature"}}, {"year": -427, "year_label": "428 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Euripides' play Hippolytus is performed in the Dionysia competition, the famous Athenian dramatic festival. The play is awarded first prize.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1151725633#Literature", "title": "428 BC", "revid": 1151725633, "section": "Events › By topic › Literature"}}, {"year": -424, "year_label": "425 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Euripides' play Hecuba is performed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1242238622#Literature", "title": "425 BC", "revid": 1242238622, "section": "Events › By topic › Literature"}}, {"year": -419, "year_label": "420 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Euripides' play The Suppliant Women is performed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360316147#Drama", "title": "420 BC", "revid": 1360316147, "section": "Events › By topic › Drama"}}, {"year": -418, "year_label": "419 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Euripides' play Andromache is performed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363151383#Drama", "title": "419 BC", "revid": 1363151383, "section": "Events › By topic › Drama"}}, {"year": -414, "year_label": "415 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Euripides' play The Trojan Women is performed shortly after the massacre by Athenians of the male population of Melos.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1300115968#Drama", "title": "415 BC", "revid": 1300115968, "section": "Events › By topic › Drama"}}, {"year": -412, "year_label": "413 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Euripides' play Electra is performed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353493943#Drama", "title": "413 BC", "revid": 1353493943, "section": "Events › By topic › Drama"}}, {"year": -410, "year_label": "411 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Euripides' play Iphigenia in Tauris is performed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1210116731#Literature", "title": "411 BC", "revid": 1210116731, "section": "Events › By topic › Literature"}}, {"year": -407, "year_label": "408 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Euripides' plays Orestes and The Phoenician Women are performed. Euripides then leaves Athens in dissatisfaction and travels to the court of Archelaus I of Macedon at the King's invitation.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1303241146#Literature", "title": "408 BC", "revid": 1303241146, "section": "Events › By topic › Literature"}}, {"year": -405, "year_label": "406 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Euripides, Athenian playwright (b. c. 480 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350128825#Deaths", "title": "406 BC", "revid": 1350128825, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -404, "year_label": "405 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "March", "text": "March/April – Euripides' The Bacchae and Iphigeneia at Aulis are performed posthumously as part of a tetralogy at the City Dionysia festival and win first prize.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350128832#Drama", "title": "405 BC", "revid": 1350128832, "section": "Events › By topic › Drama"}}, {"year": 391, "year_label": "391 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": null, "text": "Flames destroy the great Library of Alexandria, established in the Mouseion in the fourth century BC. Among the items lost in the fire are works of science, including parchments by the Greek astronomer Aristarchus of Samos asserting that the Earth orbits the Sun, and dozens of dramatic works by Euripides and Sophocles.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1327980191#Literature", "title": "391", "revid": 1327980191, "section": "Events › By topic › Literature"}}]}