Euripidis Tragoediae (Nauck 3rd ed.)

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ON THE LIFE, POETRY, AND GENIUS OF EURIPIDES.

What has been handed down to us regarding the life of Euripides is neither extensive nor sufficiently certain. These accounts generally return to the minor commentary presented above, which, although it relies on Philochorus 1 and older writers of events, is not of great value and repeats many stories—either invented by comic poets or propagated by the mouths of the common people—which literate men, to compensate for the lack of facts, seized upon more eagerly than prudently. From the same source depend Gellius N.A. 15.20 and Suidas s.v. Euripides, as well as that life which, according to the Aldine edition of Euripides, is attributed by most to Thomas Magister (see Westermann's Biogr. p. 139 sq. and Dindorf's Schol. Eurip. vol. 1 p. 11–13). In recent memory, many have discussed the poet's life and genius; to name but a few, I. Pflugk in the preface to Eur. vol. 1, 1830, and God. Bernhardy in Ersch and Gruber's Encyclopedia, sect. I vol. 39, pp. 127–167.

Euripides was born, if any trust is to be placed in the consensus of witnesses, in the 1st year of the 75th Olympiad, or 480 B.C., in the archonship of Calliades, on the day the Greeks won the victory at Salamis.

1) Philochorus in the life of Euripides itself vs. 35 as is commemorated in Gellius and Suidas, cf. Müller Fragm. Hist. vol. 1 p. 412. Suidas s.v. Philochorus attests to a special discussion "On Euripides": nevertheless, I would believe that Philochorus dealt with the life of Euripides in his work "On Tragedies" (Schol. Eur. Hec. 1).