Hippolytus (Oxford University Press academic monograph reprints) - Hardcover

Euripides

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9780198141679: Hippolytus (Oxford University Press academic monograph reprints)

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ISBN 10: 019814167X ISBN 13: 9780198141679

Publisher: Oxford University Press Reprints distributed by Sa, 1996

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Very Good, Oxford University Press, Reprinted form Sheets of the 1st Edition,1978. xvi, 453pp. Thick Royal 8vo. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscriptions or marks of any kind, remarkably free from foxing or browning, well held in joints and hinges, clean crisp corners and edges. Beautifully bound in very good bright gilt lettered and decorated navy blue cloth, housed and protected in clipped original matt pictorial dustwrapper featuring blue decoration. 'A great copy and a sound addition to the library of reader,scholar and collector alike. The text is based on new collations of ten medieval manuscripts (two of them hitherto uncollated) and on all existing papyri.'

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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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