Euripides; the youngest of the trio of great Greek tragedians was born at Salamis in 480 B.C.; on the day when the Greeks won their momentous naval victory there over the fleet of the Persians. The precise social status of his parents is not clear but he received a good education; was early distinguished as an athlete; and showed talent in painting and oratory. He was a fellow student of Pericles; and his dramas show the influence of the philosophical ideas of Anaxagoras and of Socrates; with whom he was personally intimate. Like Socrates; he was accused of impiety; and this; along with domestic infelicity; has been supposed to afford a motive for his withdrawal from Athens; first to Magnesia and later to the court of Archelaues in Macedonia where he died in 406 B.C. Euripidess "Hippolytus" is the story of its title character; the son of Theseus and Hippolyta; who has scorn love and devoted himself to hunting and the Goddess of the hunt; Artemis. For this; Aphrodite; the Goddess of love has sought
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