Quote of the day
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Euripides
Born: 480 BC
Died: 406 BC (aged 74)
Bio: Euripides was a tragedian of classical Athens. He is one of the few whose plays have survived, with the others being Aeschylus, Sophocles, and potentially Euphorion.
Known for:
- Medea
- The Bacchae
- Hippolytus
- Alcestis
- The Trojan Women
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