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Make a short research on Euripides & Cervantes and write only a sentence (less than 60 words) talking about one of the following topics: 

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Make a short research on Euripides & Cervantes and write only a sentence (less than 60 words) talking about one of the following topics: 

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- date and place of birth
- date and place of death
- childhood years
- marriage/family
- job/profession other than writing
- the first piece of writing he produced
- the most successful piece of writing he produced
- Cervantes's footprint in Greece
- Euripides's footprint in Spain
- any other interesting fact

Write your NAME and SCHOOL in the TITLE and, of course, you may add a relevant picture or a drawing in your post!!!

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Cervantes produced the majority of his writings in the last three years of his life!!!

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Did you know we don't actually know Cervantes' real face? In his novel "Novelas Ejemplares" he states that his portait was painted by Juan de Jáuregui, but there is uncertainty regarding it's authenticinty. All other portaits are painted based on his own description in the same book.

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polychroniadou vasiliki greece Miguel de Cervantes never made much money from his writing in his lifetime. As a young man, he was a soldier and was later held captive. 

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polychroniadou vasiliki greece Miguel de Cervantes never made much money from his writing in his lifetime. As a young man, he was a soldier and was later held captive. 

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Miguel de Cervantes was born in 1547 and from an early age he was an avid reader. Cervantes grew up with four siblings which brought financial problems to his family. At the age of 23 he became a soldier and even spent five years in prison before he was ransomed and returned home. In 1605 he published the first part of "Don Quixote" and died 11 years later.

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Miguel de Cervantes was born on 29 September 1547 and died on the 22nd April of 1616. We don’t know many things about his childhood but in 1570, he enlisted in the Spanish army until 1575. He married Catalina de Salazar y Palacios and his first significant novel, titled La Galatea, was published a year after his marriage, in 1585.

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In 1575, after fighting in military campaigns against the Turks in the Mediterranean, Miguel Cervantes and his brother Roderigo were captured by Barbary pirates and taken to Algiers. There, they were kept as slaves for five years until their ransom was paid.

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Miguel de Cervantes was born at  29 September 1547 and died at 22 April 1616. He was Spanish and he wrote Don Quixote, Entremeses and Novelas Ejemplares .

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At the time when Cervantes was in captivity, both Don John and the Duke of Sessa died, depriving him of two potential patrons. This incident lead in finding employment difficult. In the period between 1581 to 1582, he was employed as an intelligence agent in North Africa. Unfortunatelly little is known of his movements prior to 1584

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Cervantes was a Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists.

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Luis Díez Azcona, Colegio Pureza de María Madrid, 4º ESO D

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Luis Díez Azcona, Colegio Pureza de María Madrid, 4º ESO D

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During Euripides lifetime, major playwrights competed in a dramatic festival in Athens held to honour the god Dionysus. His first entry was in the festival in 455, but he didn't win his first competition until 441. In the end, he won four of these competitions.

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Irene Cermeño, 4 eso D, Pureza de Maria school

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Irene Cermeño, 4 eso D, Pureza de Maria school

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Date and place of birth / Date and place of death:

Euripides was born on Salamis Island between the years 484 and 480 BC. He died in Macedon+ia in the winter of 407 or 406 BC. His death was possibly due to the harsh Macedonia winter. Other death causes have also been suggested, such as that he was killed by hunting dogs, or torn apart by women.

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Ana Renedo, 4 ESO A, Pureza de María Madrid

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Ana Renedo, 4 ESO A, Pureza de María Madrid

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Job / Profession (other than writing):

He served for a short time as both dancer and torch-bearer at the rites of Apollo Zosterius. Apart from this short job, we only know that he serviced on a diplomatic mission to Syracuse in Sicily.

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Daniel Cisneros Molina, Colegio Pureza de María Madrid, 4º ESO A

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Daniel Cisneros Molina, Colegio Pureza de María Madrid, 4º ESO A

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The first piece of writing he introduced:

The first play produced by Euripides was the Peliades (also called Daughters of Pelias) brought out in 455 BC. This play was lost and was concerned with the Medea story. The next one, which is the only satyr play that has survived entirely, was Cyclops, which was closely based on an episode from Homer’s Odyssey.

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Inés Sebastián, Colegio Pureza de María Madrid, 4º ESO A

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Inés Sebastián, Colegio Pureza de María Madrid, 4º ESO A

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Euripides’ footprint in Spain:
In the Prado Museum, there is a bust from Euripides dated from the 2nd century. We don’t know who made it because at that time, many sculptors used to make copies from Roman sculptures. We know that it is a bust from him because there is a replica of this bust in Naples which contains the name of the famous Greek author.

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Álvaro Martínez, Colegio Pureza de María Madrid, 4º ESO  C

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Álvaro Martínez, Colegio Pureza de María Madrid, 4º ESO  C

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The most successful piece of writing he produced:

The most successful piece of writing Euripides produced was Medea (431 BC), a story based on the myth of Jason and Medea. The main character, Medea, is an enchantress who becomes abandoned by her husband Jason as he leaves her for someone else for political gain. To take revenge, she kills the children they had together.

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Irene Peña, Colegio Pureza de María Madrid, 4º ESO A

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Irene Peña, Colegio Pureza de María Madrid, 4º ESO A

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In Helen, the Greeks and the Trojans both go to war over what is, effectively, an illusion. The goddess Hera is responsible for the phantom Helen and, therefore, the cause of the Trojan War: she’s seeking revenge on mortals over something called the Judgement of Paris.

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Euripides and Socrates were friends. Euripides said: “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you a foolish”, which means that intelligent people are full of doubts whereas foolish people are full of confidence, so if you contradict them and say the truth, you’ll risk being called a fool. Socrates said: “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

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Lucía Izquierdo, 4 ESO D, Pureza de María Madrid.

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Lucía Izquierdo, 4 ESO D, Pureza de María Madrid.

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In the 20th century, the writer Elena Soriano wrote the novel Medea, inspired by Euripides’ original tragedy. There is also a passage in the play Bodas de sangre by Federico Garcia Lorca, where the main characters argued about the role of women in society. Critics believe that the thoughts of this passage are taken from Euripides’ Hyppolitus.

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Sofia Feito Vázquez, colegio Pureza de María Madrid, 4 ESO D

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Sofia Feito Vázquez, colegio Pureza de María Madrid, 4 ESO D

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Euripides was the last of classical Athens’ three great tragic dramatists, following Aeschylus and Sophocles. He is considered by many to be the most influential. He wrote around 90 plays, but only 18 of his tragedies have survived complete.

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Rebeca Feito ,4 ESO A, Pureza de maria Madrid

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Rebeca Feito ,4 ESO A, Pureza de maria Madrid

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In the Spanish literature from the 20th century, in the ninth chapter of the second part of the novel La voluntad written by José Martínez Ruíz, Azorín, we have found a thought that seems to be taken from an Euripides’ quote: ‘Who knows but that this life is really death, And whether death is not what men call life?

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Alejandra de Evan 4ºESO A- Colegio Pureza de María Madrid.

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Alejandra de Evan 4ºESO A- Colegio Pureza de María Madrid.

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He was married twice. The names of his wives were Choerile and Melito. With the second wife, he had three sons and a daughter, (who is said to have been killed after an attack by a rabid dog).

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Andrea Izaguirre, Colegio Pureza de María, 4ºESOB

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Andrea Izaguirre, Colegio Pureza de María, 4ºESOB

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At the time when Euripides lived and wrote his works, plays did not have the formatting they have today. They were written much like prose without stage directions, no notation of change of speaker, or even punctuation consistency.

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Lucía Villarroel Fernández, Colegio Pureza de María, 4ºESO D

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Lucía Villarroel Fernández, Colegio Pureza de María, 4ºESO D

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Also in the 19th century, German Hernandez Amores made some paintings which recreated the Greco-Roman world. Among them, we can find this one in the Prado Museum, which represents Medea and her dead children.

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Rodrigo Carpio Bezón, Pureza de María, 4ºESO D

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Rodrigo Carpio Bezón, Pureza de María, 4ºESO D

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In the 19th century, Eduardo de Mier published a pioneering Library of Greek drama ... Tragedies of Eurípides. Volume I, where he translated into prose and wrote down, after a critical historical introduction on them, nine tragedies by Euripides. Between 1909 and 1910 he managed to reissue them in three volumes with the missing ones. Each tragedy is preceded by its argument, in which, in addition to the plot content, it highlights the literary merit of the work, the translations and imitation of it in Latin and modern languages ​​and, finally, the chronology is set.

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Marta Muñoz Cruz, Pureza de María, 4ESO D

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Marta Muñoz Cruz, Pureza de María, 4ESO D

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In the 19th century, the sculptor José Vilches created Andromache, based on the main character of one of Euripides’ work with the same name. The sculpture is located near our school, in Paseo de Recoletos.

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Diego Álvarez, 4 ESO A, Pureza de María Madrid

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Diego Álvarez, 4 ESO A, Pureza de María Madrid

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Euripides’ plays often include complex, strong female characters who were avengers in spite of being victimized in some way. He also enjoyed writing about the darker side of people, including plots with topics such as insanity, revenge and suffering.

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Euripides’ footprint in Spain:

During the Golden Age of Spanish literature, 16th and 17th centuries, we find two authors who quote Euripides. The Renaissance poet Fray Luis de Leon wrote ‘La perfecta casada’. There, he included a quote from Euripides’ Andromache and another one from Ecuba. In the Baroque, Pedro de Valencia quoted tells in perfect hendecasyllabic verses what Euripides told Pentheus, the king of Thebes, about the tales of witches and everything related to witchcraft.

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Miguel de Cervantes was born at 29 September 1547 and died at 22 April 1616. He was the greatest writer in the Spanish language.

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Celia Fernández, Colegio Pureza de María Madrid, 4ºESO D

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Celia Fernández, Colegio Pureza de María Madrid, 4ºESO D

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All of Euripides’ existing plays are concerned with three basic topics: war, women, and religion. He investigated the social, political, religious, and philosophical issues of his days, and he truly loved his homeland and sympathized genuinely with suffering humanity.

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Nuria de Faragó Alonso, Pureza de María Madrid 4⁰ ESO B 

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Nuria de Faragó Alonso, Pureza de María Madrid 4⁰ ESO B 

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In Peristeria, on Salamis Island we can visit a ten-chamber cave called the cave
of Euripides, subject of archaeological investigation. People think that this was
the place where the playwright came for sanctuary to write his tragedies.

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Euripides’ Helen was first performed in 412 BC. It tells an old conspiracy theory by the ancient historian Herodotus: that ‘Helen of Troy’ was a mere phantom conjured by Hera, and that the real wife of Menelaus spent the duration of the Trojan War in Egypt, having been taken there by Hermes and kept safe out harm's way.