Short answers, pulled from the story.
Euripides was born on Salamis Island around 480 BC, the same day that Athens defeated Persia at the Battle of Salamis. His father Mnesarchus worked as a retailer in the deme of Phlya, and his mother Cleito sold vegetables to support the family.
Euripides won only four victories during his lifetime, yet his plays survived more intact than those of his rivals because his popularity grew as theirs declined. He first competed in the City Dionysia festival in 455 BC but did not win first prize until 441 BC.
Tradition holds that Euripides died in 406 BC after retiring to the rustic court of King Archelaus in Macedonia. Some modern scholars argue he may never have visited Macedonia at all, or that King Archelaus drew him there using incentives offered to other artists.
Two manuscripts preserve the alphabetical collection, designated L and P after Laurentian Library at Florence and Bibliotheca Palatina in Vatican. Trojan Woman and latter part of Bacchae are missing from manuscript L.
The gap between Telephus produced in 438 BC and its parody in Thesmophoriazusae in 411 BC spanned twenty-seven years. Greek tragedy comprised lyric and dialogue mostly in iambic trimeter with Euripides sometimes resolving two syllables into three over time.