Euripides (c. 480 – c. 406 BC) was a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose full plays have survived. Of the more than 90 plays attributed to Euripides, 18 are extant in full: Alcestis, Medea, Heracleidae, Hippolytus, Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliants, Electra, Herakles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia in Tauris, Ion, Helen, Phoenician Women, Orestes, Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis and Cyclops.
