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Hippolytus (Oxford University Press academic monograph reprints) - Hardcover

Book 8 of 12: Griechische Dramen

Euripides

 
9780198141679: Hippolytus (Oxford University Press academic monograph reprints)

Synopsis

Euripides's Hippolytos tells of an honourable youth's tragic death, contrived by his father in the false belief that his son had seduced his new wife. This edition of the play is intended for students and scholars alike. The text is based upon new collations of the medieval manuscripts (two of them hitherto uncollated) and on all known papyri. The introduction contains a significant reappraisal, in light of the evidences of papyri, of the history of the text in antiquity, and advances a new account of the relationship between the medieval manuscripts. There is also a full discussion of the earlier history of the legend and of two of the lost tragedies on the same theme.

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Euripides's Hippolytos tells of an honourable youth's tragic death, contrived by his father in the false belief that his son had seduced his new wife. This edition of the play is intended for students and scholars alike. The text is based upon new collations of the medieval manuscripts (two of them hitherto uncollated) and on all known papyri. The introduction contains a significant reappraisal, in light of the evidences of papyri, of the history of the text in antiquity, and advances a new account of the relationship between the medieval manuscripts. There is also a full discussion of the earlier history of the legend and of two of the lost tragedies on the same theme.

Review

`profoundly learned and supremely intelligent book ... a truly great achievement' Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Journal of Hellenic Studies

`This book ... deserves the careful attention of everyone seriously interested in Greek literature.' Journal of Hellenic Studies

'celebrated edition ... I can think of no better advertisement for this type of scholarship which may be unfashionable but still has so much to offer.'Greece & Rome, April 1993

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