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Euripides

Classical Athenian playwright

18 dated entries naming Euripides, drawn from 17 separate years between 485 BCE and 391 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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5th century BC

  • 485 BCESome sources place the birth of Euripides in this year, though the more traditional date is 480.source
  • 480 BCESeptember 22 (traditional date) – Euripides, Greek playwright (d. 406 BC)source
  • 455 BCEEuripides presents his earliest known tragedy, Peliades, in the Athenian festival of Dionysia.source
  • 441 BCEThe Greek playwright, Euripides, wins his first victory in a dramatic festival.source
  • 438 BCETelephus, a play by the renowned playwright Euripides, is produced in Athens. This tragedy did not survive to modern times.source
  • 438 BCEThe Greek playwright Euripides' play Alcestis is performed in the Dionysia, an Athenian dramatic festival.source
  • 431 BCEEuripides' play Medea wins third prize at the Dionysia, the famous Athenian dramatic festival.source
  • 428 BCEEuripides' play Hippolytus is performed in the Dionysia competition, the famous Athenian dramatic festival. The play is awarded first prize.source
  • 425 BCEEuripides' play Hecuba is performed.source
  • 420 BCEEuripides' play The Suppliant Women is performed.source
  • 419 BCEEuripides' play Andromache is performed.source
  • 415 BCEEuripides' play The Trojan Women is performed shortly after the massacre by Athenians of the male population of Melos.source
  • 413 BCEEuripides' play Electra is performed.source
  • 411 BCEEuripides' play Iphigenia in Tauris is performed.source
  • 408 BCEEuripides' 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.source
  • 406 BCEEuripides, Athenian playwright (b. c. 480 BC)source
  • 405 BCEMarch/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.source

4th century

  • 391Flames 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.source

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