Euripides Quotes
Nothing prospers to the end.
Euripides, 480-405 BC, Greek dramatist, Suppliants
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He also repeated this quotation in his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in 1951.
Burmese buildings often had beautiful wood carvings at the top of the building pinnacle. This was a metaphor for the changing status of all good things which must deteriorate.
Euripides (/jʊəˈrɪpɪdiːz/; Greek: Εὐριπίδης Eurīpídēs, pronounced [eu̯.riː.pí.dɛːs]; c. 480 – c. 406 BC) was a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, but the Suda says it was ninety-two at most. Of these, eighteen or nineteen have survived more or less complete (Rhesus is suspect). There are many fragments (some substantial) of most of his other plays. 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.
