TIME LINE FOR EURIPIDES’ HECUBA
GREEK HISTORY 800-700 Homer’s Iliad & Odyssey
EURIPIDES’ CAREER
ca. 485-80 Birth of Euripides
750-500 Greek Colonization of the Black
Sea area
510-08 Radical Democracy in Athens 441 Euripides’ First Victory
490-479 Persian Wars
438 Alcestis
455 Euripides’ First Competition
431 Beginning of The Peloponnesian War 431 Medea
429 Plague in Athens & Death of Perikles
428 Hippolytus
431-425 War drags on with stalemate
c. 425 HECUBA
415-13 Sicilian Expedition & Disaster 406 Athenian victory at Argineusae
420-412 Electra, Iphigenia in Tauris,
Trojan Women, Helen
408 Orestes
404 Athens falls to Sparta 406 Euripides dies in Macedonia
399 Socrates’ Trial and Death 405 Bakkhai & Iphigenia in Aulis
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