Euripides Alcestis

Name: Euripides Alcestis
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ISBN: 9780199254668

ISBN-10: 0199254664

ISBN-13: 9780199254668

Edition: 2007

Authors: L. P. E. Parker

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Alcestis is one of Euripides' richest and most brilliant--as well as most controversial--plays. But, apart from D. J. Conacher's student text, no annotated edition in English has appeared for more than fifty years. The present work is designed to aid close reading and to serve as an introduction to the serious study of the play in its various aspects. The introduction covers the background to the story in myth and folktale, its treatment by other writers from antiquity to the present, the critical reception of Euripides' play, and its textual transmission and meters. The notes are designed in particular to help readers who have been learning Greek for a relatively short time. More advanced…

Book details

List price: $230.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/3/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 360
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.09" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



Abbreviations


Introduction


Alcestis in Myth and Legend


Alcestis in Greek Literature


Euripides and Alcestis


Alcestis and the Poets


Alcestis and the Critics


The Transmission of the Text


The Metres of Alcestis


Sources for the Text


Symbols used in the Apparatus


Metrical Symbols and Abbreviations


The Hypotheses


The Characters


Text


Commentary


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