Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1930. — xiii, 315 p.; 10 plates, 15 figures. The Life of Euripides. Characteristics of the Tragedy of Euripides. Further Characteristics of the Tragedy of Euripides. The Extant Plays. The Lost Plays. Appendix. Euripides in the Papyri.
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016. — 430 p. — (Sammlung griechischer und lateinischer Grammatiker Volume 19). This edition contains the Greek text of the scholia (veteran and recenter) and the glosses to Euripides’ Hippolytus with a critical apparatus and an apparatus of loci similes. Before the text comes an introduction consisting of two chapters: the former sketches out the...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2011. — xviii, 366 p. — (Oklahoma series in classical culture, 38). — ISBN: 978-0-8061-4119-0. Among the best-known Greek tragedies, Electra is also one of the plays students of Greek often read in the original language. It tells the story of how Electra and her brother, Orestes, avenge the murder of their father, Agamemnon, by their mother and her...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020. — 690 p. — (Brill's Companions to Classical Studies). Brill’s Companion to Euripides offers 49 specially commissioned essays from leading international scholars which give critical examinations of the progress and direction of numerous wide-ranging debates about various aspects of Euripidean drama. Each chapter, as well as covering a wide diversity...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020. — 537 p. — (Brill's Companions to Classical Studies). Brill’s Companion to Euripides offers 49 specially commissioned essays from leading international scholars which give critical examinations of the progress and direction of numerous wide-ranging debates about various aspects of Euripidean drama. Each chapter, as well as covering a wide diversity...
Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1949. — 202 p. La mayoría de los volúmenes de esta colección tratan vastos temas y asuntos de reconocida importancia para las “grandes masas” de hoy en día. AI consagrar el presente volumen a un solo escritor, tan distante ya de nosotros por su época y su civilización, y apenas conocido por algo más que su nombre para la mayoría de los lectores de...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 528 p. Satyric is the most thinly attested genre of Greek drama, but it appears to have been the oldest and according to Aristotle formative for tragedy. By the 5th Century BC at Athens, it shared most of its compositional elements with tragedy, to which it became an adjunct; for at the annual great dramatic festivals, it was performed only...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 176 p. — (Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy). This book is an accessible guide through the many twists and turns of Euripides' Children of Heracles, providing several frameworks through which to understand and appreciate the play. Children of Heracles follows the fortunes of Heracles' family after his death. Euripides confronts characters and...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 176 p. — (Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy). This book is an accessible guide through the many twists and turns of Euripides' Children of Heracles, providing several frameworks through which to understand and appreciate the play. Children of Heracles follows the fortunes of Heracles' family after his death. Euripides confronts characters and...
SUNY Press, 2021. — 368 p. Responding to Plato’s challenge to defend the political thought of poetic sources, Marlene K. Sokolon explores Euripides’s understanding of justice in nine of his surviving tragedies. Drawing on Greek mythological stories, Euripides examines several competing ideas of justice, from the ancient ethic of helping friends and harming enemies to justice as...
SUNY Press, 2021. — 368 p. Responding to Plato’s challenge to defend the political thought of poetic sources, Marlene K. Sokolon explores Euripides’s understanding of justice in nine of his surviving tragedies. Drawing on Greek mythological stories, Euripides examines several competing ideas of justice, from the ancient ethic of helping friends and harming enemies to justice as...
London, U:K.: I.B.Tauris & Co., 2019. — (Understanding Classics Series). — x, 182 p. Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides are often described as the greatest tragedians of the ancient world. Of these three pivotal founders of modern drama, Euripides is characterized as the interloper and the innovator: the man who put tragic verse into the mouths of slaves, women and the socially...
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004. — 1164 p. Two impressive books containing the edition of Euripides' fragments make up the fifth and concluding volume of the series Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, edited by Bruno Snell, Richard Kannicht and Stefan Radt from 1981 onwards in replacement of Nauck's late nineteenth century second edition of the tragic fragments. The third and the...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 411 p. This book is the first to examine the reception and performance history of Euripides' Herakles from the fifth century BC to AD 2006. Its primary interest lies in changing ideas of Heraklean madness, of its causes, its consequences, and its therapy. Writers subsequent to Euripides have tried to ‘reason’ or make sense of the madness, often...
Oxford Clarendon Press, 1960. — LIX + 253 p. "Using to the full the last half century's great accessions to the comparative study of religion, [Dodds] has given a coherent and convincing reconstruction of the Dionysiac background--and, indeed, foreground--of the play, illustrating it with many instructive non-Greek and modern parallels... Equally instructive and stimulating is...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 321 p. Although modern readers continue to believe that in his dramas Euripides was questioning the nature and sometimes even the existence of the gods, and that through his dramas he sought to reveal the flaws in the traditional religious beliefs of his own time, this book argues that instead of seeking to undermine ancient religion, Euripides...
Walter De Gruyter, 2016. — X + 445 p. A major, defining polarity in Euripidean drama, wisdom and folly, has never so far been the subject of a book-length study. The volume aims at filling this gap. Virtually all Euripidean characters, from gods to slaves, are subject to some aspect of folly and claim at least some measure of wisdom. The playwright’s sophisticated handling of...
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1963. — XI, 157 p. One of the best studies on political aspects of Euripides' tragedies. Interpretation of two tragedies: Suppliant Women and Heraclidae, i.e. the tragedies with the distinctive political sujets which invite a comparison with the events contemporary to the author; a special chapter is devoted to the tragic hypotheseis,...
Brill Academic Pub, 2009. — 274 p. The prominent role of women in Greek drama has always fascinated readers. This book proposes that women in Euripides' plays communicate in ways constructed by the tragic genre itself as 'female.' Yet these women's words are surprisingly not uniformly dangerous or excessively emotional, as has traditionally been thought. Rather, Euripides'...
Walter de Gruyter, 2013. — 223 p. Series: Untersuchungen Zur Antiken Literatur Und Geschichte (Book 112). This unique volume is an accessible yet in-depth narratological study of Euripides' Alcestis. It contextualizes the play in terms of its reception by the original audience, locating the intricate narrative tropes of the plot in the dynamics of fifth-century Athenian...