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Euripides

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Ancient Greek tragedian (c. 480-406 BCE), the last of the three great tragic playwrights of Classical Athens, whose plays Medea and The Bacchae are noted for their psychologically complex and often unsettling portraits of human and divine passion.

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Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three authors of Greek tragedy whose name is ascribed to surviving plays.
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