He also became "the most tragic of poets", focusing on the inner lives and motives of his characters in a way previously unknown. This new approach led him to pioneer developments that later writers adapted to comedy, some of which are characteristic of romance. Įuripides is identified with theatrical innovations that have profoundly influenced drama down to modern times, especially in the representation of traditional, mythical heroes as ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. More of his plays have survived intact than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, partly because his popularity grew as theirs declined -he became, in the Hellenistic Age, a cornerstone of ancient literary education, along with Homer, Demosthenes, and Menander.
There are many fragments (some substantial) of most of his other plays. Of these, eighteen or nineteen have survived more or less complete ( Rhesus is suspect).
Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, but the Suda says it was ninety-two at most. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full. 406 BC) was a tragedian of classical Athens.
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