This paper examines the contradictions in the Euripides' tragedies. Corpus in which contradictions were noticed and singled out was: Andromache, Electra, Hecuba, Helen, Hyppolitus, Iphigenia in Tauris, Iphigenia in Aulis, Medea, Orestes and The Trojan Women. The paper presents examples of contradictions, both in Croatian and in Greek. The research is rounded off with a concise selection of motives and plot elements on which more numerous and important contradictions have been noticed. For some examples, it has been proven that they are not in fact contradictions in the true sense of the word, because the analysis of the context of dramas in which they appear offers an explanation of their existence (e.g. time flow between plots in the tragedies, viewing the situation only from the subjective perspective of some characters, etc.). For the remaining contradictions, an explanation of the possible (literary or other) purpose of their inclusion in the plays is offered.