EXPERT SAYS GREEK DIG FOUND ANCIENT PLAYWRIGHT'S CAVE.(MAIN)

Byline: -- Associated Press

ATHENS, Greece -- Archaeologists have found the hideaway used by Euripides to write at least one of his timeless plays 2,500 years ago, one expert said Friday.

Yannos Lolos, the archaeologist who excavated the site, said he discovered a clay cup bearing the playwright's name in a limestone cave on an island near Athens a year ago.

The fragmented, fifth-century B.C., black-glazed cup bears the first six letters of Euripedes' name in Greek.

Euripides, …