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The Isthmus or the events in Salamis. Not a beautiful goddess, a seller of herbs original: "πωλὶς" - likely a reference to the common comic slur that Euripides' mother was a vegetable seller in a small way...
and to the very serpents? during the day?. As Philochorus demonstrates. Philochorus was an Athenian historian who sought to correct rumors about the playwright's low-born origins.
And during the crossing of Xerxes original: "διαβάσει Ξέρξου" - referring to the Persian King's invasion of Greece in 480 BCE, he was carried in his mother’s womb. He first became a painter. He heard [lectures by] Thales likely a scribal error for Anaxagoras or Archelaus, and Prodicus in their rhetoric. And [he heard] Socrates in ethics or philosophy. He also studied under Anaxagoras of Clazomenae. For seventeen years [he continued this]. For when he saw Anaxagoras facing dangers because of his impious? doctrines Anaxagoras was famously prosecuted for suggesting the sun was a red-hot stone rather than a god and [thinking it] not safe? there, he fled. ???
Nor did they receive [him] with honor. ??? Nevertheless. First with Choerilus. ???
and ??? Mnesilochus?. He fathered Mnesilochus, similar to Aristophanes?. Aristophanes was the comic rival who frequently parodied Euripides’ family life.
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???, and migrating from them?, he went to Archelaus, king of the Macedonians. With whom he lived, obtaining? the highest? honor. He died
through the plot of Aridaeus the Macedonian. ??? of the ???.
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he himself ???, ??? to Euripides.
???, not by dogs, but by women [it is said he died] because of
??? ??? toward Archelaus ??? ??? of Archelaus. There are conflicting legends about Euripides' death; some claim he was torn apart by the king’s hunting dogs, others by a mob of women. He lived for seventy-five years. And ???
in Pella, the king having transported [him]. His plays, according to some, were seventy-five; according to others, ninety-two. He won [first prize] with five of them; four while still living, and one after his death. He died in the ninety-third Olympiad. Circa 406 BCE.
After the siege of Troy original: "Ἰλίου" - Ilium, the Greeks sailed away.
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worthy of much ???. ??? ??? of daughters. The Greeks, honoring the hero, and having been torn away from this [place] each ???.
But Polymestor, the king of the Thracians, slaughtered one of the sons of Priam, Polydorus; for Polydorus had been entrusted to Polymestor by Priam in expectation of gifts and money. After the capture of Troy, wishing to seize his wealth, he [Polymestor] set out to murder him. He arrived ??? ???. and ??? and
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