Protesilaus euripides biography
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About Euripides
Euripides was born around 484 B.C. on the island of Salamis. He was the son of Mnesarchus, an unsuccessful retailer near Athens, and Cleito, whom comic writers accused of selling vegetables.
Protesilaus euripides biography
Euripides was a dancer and torch-bearer at the rites of Apollo Zosterius. It is said that his father believed an oracle about his son predicted "crowns of victory", which Mnesarchus thought meant athletic victories. He encouraged his son into athletics.
Euripides completed his military obligatin in 466 B.C. and then studied athletics, painting, and then philosophy under Prodicus and Anaxagoras.
Protesilaus euripides biography summary
He began writing tragedies at the age of 25 and he first took part in the City Dionysia in 455 BC, the year after Aeschylus died. The Daughters of Pelias, a version of the Medea story, was one of the plays he entered in 455 BC.
His first victory came in 441 BC and he won again in 428 BC. He won a total of four times. Aeschylus won 13 times and Sophocles 18 times.