Euripides

Euripides was born on Greece’s Salamis Island in 484 B.C. to parents Cleito and Mnesarchus. After an oracle said his son would win “crowns of victory,” Mnesarchus trained Euripides for athletics. In fact, Euripides was actually destined for the stage, ultimately becoming one of classical Athens’s great tragedians, along with Aeschylus and Sophocles. Nearly 100 plays have been attributed to Euripides, though only 18 or 19 have survived intact. According to some biographies, Euripides went into voluntary exile later in life after two failed marriages, dying in Macedonia in or around 406 B.C.