Euri'pides
3. The youngest of the three sons of the above, according to Suidas.
After the death of his father he brought out three of his plays at the great Dionysia, viz. the
Alcmaeon (no longer extant), the
Iphigeneia at Aulis, and the
Bacchae. (Schol.
ad Arist. Ran. 67.) Suidas mentions also a nephew of the great poet, of the same name, to whom he ascribes the authorship of three plays,
Medea, Orestes, and
Polyxena, and who, he tells us, gained a prize with one of his uncle's tragedies after the death of the latter.
It is probable that the son and the nephew have been confounded. Aristophanes too (
Eccles. 825, 826, 829) mentions a certain Euripides who had shortly before proposed a property-tax of a fortieth.
The proposal made him at first very popular, but the measure was thrown out, and he became forthwith the object of a general outcry, about B. C. 394.
It is doubtful whether he is to be identified with the son or the nephew of the poet. (See Böckh,
Publ. Econ. of Athens, pp. 493, 506, 520.)
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