Short answers, pulled from the story.
Euripides was born in 480 BC on the very day that the Athenian fleet defeated the Persian army at the Battle of Salamis. This coincidence became the cornerstone of a legend that claimed his destiny was written in the stars.
Euripides made a home for himself in a cave on Salamis known today as the Cave of Euripides. A cult of the playwright developed after his death at this location where he built an impressive library.
Euripides died in 406 BC after retiring to the rustic court of King Archelaus in Macedonia. Some modern scholars claim that in reality Euripides may have never visited Macedonia at all.
The nineteen plays that survive today were combined from select and alphabetical editions by an unknown Byzantine scholar. These include The Trojan Women, The Bacchae, The Phoenician Women, and Iphigenia in Aulis among others.
A papyrus containing previously unknown fragments of Euripides's Ino and Polyidus was discovered at the Egyptian archaeological site of Philadelphia in 2022. The first scholarly edition providing the Greek text and an English translation was published in August 2024.