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A Companion to Euripides is an up-to-date, centralized assessment of Euripides and his work, drawing from the most recently published texts, commentaries, and scholarship, and offering detailed discussions and provocative interpretations of his extant plays and fragments.

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"This Companion highlights the performative and contextual aspects of old plays, making experienced researchers look afresh to them and presenting itself as a great introduction for students and young scholars." Sofia Frade, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, Centro de Estudos Clássicos, Cadmo – Revista de História Antiga, Cadmo 27



Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors viii

Acknowledgments xiii

List of Abbreviations xiv

1 Introduction 1
Laura K. McClure

Part I Text, Author, and Tradition 9

2 Text and Transmission 11
Donald J. Mastronarde

3 The Euripidean Biography 27
Ruth Scodel

4 Euripides and the Development of Greek Tragedy 42
John Gibert

Part II Early Plays (438–416 BCE) 59

5 Alcestis 61
Eirene Visvardi

6 Medea 80
Laura Swift

7 Children of Heracles 92
Owen E. Goslin

8 Hippolytus 107
Mary Ebbott

9 Andromache 122
Ian C. Storey

10 Hecuba 136
Daniel Turkeltaub

11 Suppliant Women 152
Laura K. McClure

12 Electra 166
Hanna M. Roisman

13 Heracles: The Perfect Piece 182
C.W. Marshall

Part III Later Plays (After 416 BCE) 197

14 Trojan Women 199
Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz

15 Iphigenia in Tauris 214
Jennifer Clarke Kosak

16 Ion: An Edible Fairy Tale? 228
Emma M. Griffiths

17 Significant Inconsistencies in Euripides’ Helen 243
Deborah Boedeker

18 Phoenician Women 258
Anna A. Lamari

19 Orestes 270
Elton Barker

20 Iphigenia at Aulis 284
Isabelle Torrance

21 Bacchae 298
Laurialan Reitzammer

Part IV Satyr, Spurious, and Fragmentary Plays 313

22 Cyclops 315
Patrick O’Sullivan

23 Rhesus 334
Vayos Liapis

24 Fragments and Fragmentary Plays 347
Christopher Collard

Part V Form, Structure, and Performance 365

25 Form and Structure 367
Markus Dubischar

26 The Theater of Euripides 390
David Kawalko Roselli

27 The Euripidean Chorus 412
Sheila Murnaghan

28 Euripides and the Sound of Music 428
Armand D’Angour

Part VI Topics and Approaches 445

29 Euripides and his Intellectual Context 447
Francis M. Dunn

30 Myth 468
Matthew Wright

31 Euripides and Religion 483
Judith Fletcher

32 Gender 500
Melissa Mueller

Part VII Reception 515

33 Euripides, Aristophanes, and the Reception of “Sophistic” Styles 517
Nancy Worman

34 Euripides in the Fourth Century BCE 533
Anne Duncan

35 Euripides and Senecan Drama 546
Christopher Star

36 All Aboard the Bacchae Bus: Reception of Euripides in the Twentieth and Twenty‐first Centuries 565
Barbara Goff

Index 583

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      Publication Date: 30/12/2016
      ISBN13: 9781119257509, 978-1119257509
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A Companion to Euripides is an up-to-date, centralized assessment of Euripides and his work, drawing from the most recently published texts, commentaries, and scholarship, and offering detailed discussions and provocative interpretations of his extant plays and fragments.

      Trade Review

      "This Companion highlights the performative and contextual aspects of old plays, making experienced researchers look afresh to them and presenting itself as a great introduction for students and young scholars." Sofia Frade, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, Centro de Estudos Clássicos, Cadmo – Revista de História Antiga, Cadmo 27



      Table of Contents

      Notes on Contributors viii

      Acknowledgments xiii

      List of Abbreviations xiv

      1 Introduction 1
      Laura K. McClure

      Part I Text, Author, and Tradition 9

      2 Text and Transmission 11
      Donald J. Mastronarde

      3 The Euripidean Biography 27
      Ruth Scodel

      4 Euripides and the Development of Greek Tragedy 42
      John Gibert

      Part II Early Plays (438–416 BCE) 59

      5 Alcestis 61
      Eirene Visvardi

      6 Medea 80
      Laura Swift

      7 Children of Heracles 92
      Owen E. Goslin

      8 Hippolytus 107
      Mary Ebbott

      9 Andromache 122
      Ian C. Storey

      10 Hecuba 136
      Daniel Turkeltaub

      11 Suppliant Women 152
      Laura K. McClure

      12 Electra 166
      Hanna M. Roisman

      13 Heracles: The Perfect Piece 182
      C.W. Marshall

      Part III Later Plays (After 416 BCE) 197

      14 Trojan Women 199
      Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz

      15 Iphigenia in Tauris 214
      Jennifer Clarke Kosak

      16 Ion: An Edible Fairy Tale? 228
      Emma M. Griffiths

      17 Significant Inconsistencies in Euripides’ Helen 243
      Deborah Boedeker

      18 Phoenician Women 258
      Anna A. Lamari

      19 Orestes 270
      Elton Barker

      20 Iphigenia at Aulis 284
      Isabelle Torrance

      21 Bacchae 298
      Laurialan Reitzammer

      Part IV Satyr, Spurious, and Fragmentary Plays 313

      22 Cyclops 315
      Patrick O’Sullivan

      23 Rhesus 334
      Vayos Liapis

      24 Fragments and Fragmentary Plays 347
      Christopher Collard

      Part V Form, Structure, and Performance 365

      25 Form and Structure 367
      Markus Dubischar

      26 The Theater of Euripides 390
      David Kawalko Roselli

      27 The Euripidean Chorus 412
      Sheila Murnaghan

      28 Euripides and the Sound of Music 428
      Armand D’Angour

      Part VI Topics and Approaches 445

      29 Euripides and his Intellectual Context 447
      Francis M. Dunn

      30 Myth 468
      Matthew Wright

      31 Euripides and Religion 483
      Judith Fletcher

      32 Gender 500
      Melissa Mueller

      Part VII Reception 515

      33 Euripides, Aristophanes, and the Reception of “Sophistic” Styles 517
      Nancy Worman

      34 Euripides in the Fourth Century BCE 533
      Anne Duncan

      35 Euripides and Senecan Drama 546
      Christopher Star

      36 All Aboard the Bacchae Bus: Reception of Euripides in the Twentieth and Twenty‐first Centuries 565
      Barbara Goff

      Index 583

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