Last name: Eurypides
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Also known as: Euripides, gr. Euripides
Born: 480 p.n.e. (Salamina island)
Died: 406 p.n.e. (st. Macedonia)
Category: Literature.
Eurypides – ur. Ok. 485/480 p.n.e. Na Salamanie, died 407/406 p.n.e. in Pella, Macedonia, The youngest of the big three Greek tragedy (obok Ajschylosa i Sofoklesa), He came from a rich landowner. Comprehensively educated, He remained under the influence of sophists and Socrates. Supporter of democracy, room, opponent of tyranny – He did not participate in political life, but in his tragedies he gave the fight to conservatism, Treating the material of myths as a material of your writing. Disagreeing with Athens' policy, At the end of his life, he emigrated to Macedonia (408 p.n.e.). He became famous as a master of a psychological portrait, Especially women's characters.
Stanisław Stabryła wrote: Eurypides managed to expose all bad and good sides of human nature with an incomparably insight and knowledge of the human soul: His passions and desires, nobility and meanness, Goodness and cruelty, ability to sacrifice and unparalleled egoism
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Staged 88 dramatic works of which have survived 17 tragedy and 1 satire drama, m.in. Hunger (438), Medea (431), Hipolite, Andromacha, Elektra, Orestes, Trojans. Many of his successors referred to the work of Eurypides, w polsce Jan Kochanowski w Briefing of Greek deputies. In the Baroque period, French classicist tragedies based on the motifs of the Euripides tragedy were translated (m.in. przekład Andromachy Jeana Baptiste’a Racine’a pióra Stanisława Morsztyna, 1689). Pierwszą tragedią Eurypidesa przetłumaczoną na język polski z oryginału był Orestes (1818, translated by Jan Milhanowicz). Całość dorobku Eurypidesa tłumaczyli Zygmunt Węclewski i Jan Kasprowicz, And the latest translations were given by Jerzy Łanowski (Tragedy, 1967).