Aristotle, Poetics, ch. 25 (trans. S. H. Butcher)
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Sophocles said that he drew men as they ought to be; Euripides, as they are.
— Aristotle
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About Euripides
Euripides (Greek: Εὐριπίδης; c. 480 BC–406 BC) was a Greek playwright.
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