Euripidean corpus

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The Euripidean corpus is the body of surviving plays and fragments attributed to the ancient Greek tragedian Euripides.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Greek tragic corpus
body of literary works
associatedWith Euripides
containsGenre mythological tragedy
satyr play
culturalContext Classical Athens
hasCanonicalNumberOfCompletePlays around 18 to 19
includesWork Alcestis
Andromache
Cyclops
linked to: Cyclopes

Electra
Hecuba
Helen
Heracles
Heraclidae
linked to: Heracleidae

Hippolytus
Ion
Iphigenia at Aulis
Iphigenia in Tauris
Medea
Orestes
Rhesus
The Bacchae
linked to: Bacchae

The Children of Heracles
The Madness of Heracles
linked to: Hercules Furens

The Phoenician Women
The Suppliant Women
linked to: The Suppliants

The Suppliants
The Trojan Women
influenced Renaissance drama
Roman tragedy
modern theatre
language Ancient Greek
literaryForm tragedy
partiallySurvivesAs complete plays
fragments
primaryTheme gender and power
human suffering
the gods and fate
war and its consequences
studiedIn classical philology
classics
theatre studies
timePeriod 5th century BCE
transmittedVia medieval manuscripts

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Alcestis partOfCorpus Euripidean corpus
subject linked to: Alcestis by Euripides
Hippolytus partOf Corpus of Euripides
linked to: Euripidean corpus
Andromache (play) partOf corpus of Euripides
subject linked to: Andromache
linked to: Euripidean corpus
Great Books of the Western World hasPart Works of Euripides
linked to: Euripidean corpus
curse of Oedipus documentedIn plays of Euripides
linked to: Euripidean corpus
king of Mycenae appearsIn tragedies of Euripides
linked to: Euripidean corpus
Argos region mentionedInWork Euripides' plays
linked to: Euripidean corpus