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We know of a private trial in which the accuser incidentally charged Euripides with impiety on the strength of a quotation from one of his tragedies, Euripides’s answer being a protest against dragging his poetry into the affair; the verdict on that belonged to another court.
On the other hand, a short characterisation of Euripides’s manner of reasoning about religious problems is unavoidable as a background for the treatment of those—very rare—passages where he has put actually atheistic reflections into the mouths of his characters.
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