... and travel as opposed to the idea of disappearing, and offering a bird’s-eye view of imagined expanses of land and sea. In Euripides’ plays, as I argue, female choruses who wish for release from their impossible circumstances offer surprisingly similar visions of escape. Again and again, they wish...

... and political upheaval. In her version, Levy loosely follows Euripides’s rendering of Medea’s final day in Corinth, when the foreign Medea learns that her husband, Jason, plans to leave her for the king’s daughter, Glaukê, and then enacts her terrible revenge on him for this betrayal. Like many nineteenth...

...This chapter examines scenes from two of Aristophanes' plays, where the tragic poets Euripides (in the Acharnians) and Agathon (in the Thesmophoriazusae) are encountered in the midst of composing their tragedies. One of the aims of the chapter is to shed some light...

...This chapter introduces tragedy, comedy and satyr play as the three major dramatic artforms produced in the Greek world from the late sixth century BC onward. It focuses on Euripides' Cyclops, which retells the famous Homeric story of Odysseus' blinding of the man-eating, one-eyed...

...This chapter talks about the survival of Euripides' Cyclops as the only complete satyr play that is a secondary consequence of a remarkable accident. It investigates the principal medieval manuscript tradition of Euripides that carries ten complete plays, including the almost...

...This chapter discusses courtly ideologies of sexual morality and gender in the early modern period, exemplifying with spoken dramas and opera libretti derived from ancient plays on the analogous figures of Phaedra, wife of Theseus (Euripides, Seneca, Racine, Lalli, Salvioni) and Fausta, wife...

...A note on a still unresolved conundrum, the identification of scribes in this famous manuscript of Euripides: whether a third hand, and not the principal one writing later in a slightly different manner, took over from the second (clearly distinct from both) in mid-codex – and finished abruptly...

... the original paper. The version now printed brings up to date the scholarly discussion of Suppliants’ date since the author's commentary of 1975. Rice Sir Tim his Chess Supplices Zuntz G Adés Thomas America Mellor Kay her Gifted Zidane Zinédine Bowie A M Euripides Pelling C Euripides...

... αἰνόπαρις‎ ἀτέρμων‎ στεφάνη‎ Barlow S A ἐμβατεύω‎ Michelini A M Van Looy H Segal C Euripides Hecuba choral ode design language emotion The stasimon is the last of the play's three. The only other substantial choral passage is the parados 98–152, in anapaestic recitative. There, the Chorus...

...This article assesses two works greatly different in significance. The Fleming Dirk Canter, brother of Willem the editor of all Euripides in 1573, began with him the systematic and methodologically precocious collection of Euripides’ fragments in quotation in other ancient authors; it remained...

..., and he died in poverty. His achievements were real, however, for he was among the first to recognise and describe psychomatic factors in medicine; and his Euripidean collations led in 1778 to the most methodical and accomplished complete edition of Euripides (and fragments) yet published anywhere. He...

...This introductory chapter provides an overview of the fragmentary plays of Euripides. It begins by looking at some categories of evidence for the fragmentary plays. Euripides' own words, the primary evidence, survive in (1) papyrus or parchment fragments of single plays or of collected ‘editions...

... Suidas π 715 Adler (παρωιδία), attrib. Eur. and Ar. 725 com concealing an ambush 726 a wine-cooler ( 727a , cont’d: see note opposite on remaining fragments.) This chapter discusses Telephus, one of Euripides' most famous, or notorious, earlier plays...

... Olympus Forms Platonic Socrates Burns Robert Shakespeare William Styx Antony Mark Cleopatra Chaucer Geoffrey Tennyson Alfred Lord youth stage of life anti Semitism Browning Robert Butler Samuel epistles poetic Grantchester Cambridgeshire nostalgia rhyme feminine Swift Jonathan Euripides...

...0 14 07 1994 The author believes that recent work on the transmission of Euripides has too narrowly confined itself to the evidence presented by the manuscripts alone. He believes that there is as much to be learned from the evidence of ‘des temoignages externes’, or the ‘tradition indirecte...

...0 14 07 1994 In his article ‘Euripides, Friederich Bothe and Mr. Diggle’ ( QUCC 1 (1979) 157-9) David Sansone claims that in my ‘Notes on the Iphigenia in Tauris of Euripides’ (PCPS 22 (1976) 42-5 [above, pp. 148-51]) I ‘offended against the shades of Euripides...

...0 14 07 1994 F. H. Bothe (1770(?)-1855), before he published his text of Euripides with commentary (Leipzig 1825-6), had already published two separate editions of a German translation of Euripides (Berlin and Stettin 1800-3; Mannheim 1823-4, reprinted 1837). The first edition...

...0 04 03 2004 Author: Euripides (ca. 485–406 b.c.e.), one of the most famous of the Athenian playwrights, wrote a number of plays that feature Greek women: Medea, Androm ache, Hecuba, Helen, Electra, Iphigenia at Aulis, and Iphigenia in Tauris. He devoted one...

...This content is only available as a PDF. Hippolytus prosecutes rhetorical Euripides The agon in Euripides has been discussed so far in this book largely in terms of features which the agones in different plays have in common. It is now time to investigate more closely the relationship...

.... Of Euripides’ earlier agones, only that in Alcestis presents a problem about which side is in the right, at least on the narrower issues of the debate. The agon in Electra resembles those in Troades and Orestes in being finely balanced, with good arguments...