Euphorion (playwright)

Euphorion was an Attic tragic playwright. He was the son of the Attic playwright Aeschylus.[1] In the Dionysia of 431 BCE, Euphorion won 1st prize, defeating both Sophocles (who took 2nd prize) and Euripides, who took 3rd prize with a tetralogy that includes the extant play Medea.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ a b Ewans, M. (2007). "Medee: Benoit Hoffman and Luigi Cherubini". Opera from the Greek: studies in the poetics of appropriation. Ashgate Publishing. p. 55. ISBN 9780754660996. 
  2. ^ Osborn, K. & Burges, D. (1998). The complete idiot's guide to classical mythology. Penguin. ISBN 9780028623856.