... test of time and others simply vanish away. Heroes are special in many different ways, they can mark an era or simply pass the time. Role models like Shakespeare and Euripedes have withstood centuries because we value their contribution to society. Mothers and fathers have the ability to last a lifetime through knowledge being passed down from generation to generation. People like ... ...

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... theater is written today. Many of his most influential pieces of work were not fully appreciated until well after his time; His two most well-known plays The Medea and Hippolytus which are now considered masterpieces, were then considered failures. It just goes to show you that with the changing times what people find relevant and important changes as quickly as ... ...

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... toward creating a more realistic drama was powerful. Of the more than 90 plays credited to Euripides, 18 survive: Alcestis, Andromache, the Bacchae, the Cyclops, Electra, Hecuba, Helen, the Heracleidae, Heracles, Hippolytus, Ion, Iphigenia at Aulis, Iphigenia in Tauris, Medea, Orestes, the Phoenissae, Rhesus and the Trojan Women. Herodotus the Historian Herodotus wrote the first historical narrative and first great prose work ... ...

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