Description
Book SynopsisThis is the second volume of a collection which includes all the significant remains of tragedies produced by the contemporaries and successors of the three classic Greek tragedians (Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides). Greek texts and sources are accompanied by English translations, related historical information, detailed explanatory notes and bibliographies. Volume Two includes more than a dozen poets of the fourth and early third centuries (Astydamas, Carcinus, Chaeremon, Theodectas, Moschion and others), the Alexandrian Pleiad, Ezechiel’s Exagôgê (a tragedy based on the biblical Exodus), and some anonymous material derived from ancient sources or rediscovered papyrus texts.
Remnants of the satyr-plays of this period are included in a separate Aris & Phillips Classical Texts volume, Euripides Cyclops and Major Fragments of Greek Satyric Drama, edited by Patrick O’Sullivan and Christopher Collard (2013).
Trade Review‘Cropp offers an effective overview of what we know of Greek tragedy from the fourth century onwards… the commentary, concise and fluent but at the same time punctual and not without original suggestions, allow one easy use of the text even for those who do not have specialist knowledge on the subject.’ Paolo B. Cipolla, Exemplaria Classica (translated from Italian)
