The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy: Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides: 2

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The surviving works of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides have been familiar to readers and theatregoers for centuries; but these works are far outnumbered by their lost plays. Between them these authors wrote around two hundred tragedies, the fragmentary remains of which are utterly fascinating. In this, the second volume of a major new survey of the tragic genre, Matthew Wright offers an authoritative critical guide to the lost plays of the three best-known tragedians. (The other Greek tragedians and their work are discussed in Volume 1: Neglected Authors.) What can we learn about the lost plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides from fragments and other types of evidence? How can we develop strategies or methodologies for 'reading' lost plays? Why were certain plays preserved and transmitted while others disappeared from view? Would we have a different impression of the work of these classic authors – or of Greek tragedy as a whole – if a different selection of plays had survived? This book answers such questions through a detailed study of the fragments in their historical and literary context. Making use of recent scholarly developments and new editions of the fragments, The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy makes these works fully accessible for the first time. Cover Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Aeschylus Athamas (TrGF 3 F1-4a) Egyptians (TrGF 3 F5) Women of Aetna (TrGF 3 F6-11) Alcmene (TrGF 3 F12) Women (or Men) of Argos (TrGF 3 F16-18) The Argo (TrGF 3 F20-1) Atalante (TrGF 3, pp. 136–7) Bacchae (TrGF 3 F22) Bassarai or Bassarides (TrGF 3 F23-5) Glaucus the Sea-God (TrGF 3 F25c-34) Glaucus of Potniae (TrGF 3 F36-42a) Daughters of Danaus (TrGF 3 F43-6) Eleusinians (TrGF 3 F53a-54) Epigoni (TrGF 3 F55-6) Edonians (TrGF 3 F57-67) Daughters of Helios (TrGF 3 68-73a) Children of Heracles (TrGF 3 F73b-77) Chamber-Builders (TrGF 3 F78) Thracian Women (TrGF 3 F83-5) Priestesses (TrGF 3 F86-8) Ixion (TrGF 3 F90-3) Iphigenia (TrGF 3 F94) Kabeiroi (TrGF 3 F95-97a) Callisto (TrGF 3 F98) Carians or Europa (TrGF 3 F99-101) Cretan Women (TrGF 3 F116-20) Laius (TrGF 3 F121-122a) Women (or Men) of Lemnos (TrGF 3 F123a-b) Memnon (TrGF 3 F127-9) Myrmidons (TrGF 3 F131-42) Mysians (TrGF 3 F143-5) Youths (Neaniskoi, TrGF 3 F146-9) Nemea (TrGF 3 F149a) Daughters of Nereus (TrGF 3 F151-4) Niobe (TrGF 3 F154a-167b) Wool-Carders (TrGF 3 F168-172b) Oedipus (TrGF 3, pp. 287–8) The Judgement about the Arms (TrGF 3 F174-8) Bone-Gatherers (TrGF 3 F179-80) Palamedes (TrGF 3 F181-182a) Pentheus (TrGF 3 F183) Women of Perrhaebia (TrGF 3 F184-6a) Penelope (TrGF 3 F187) Polydectes (TrGF 3, p. 302) Prometheus Unbound (TrGF 3 F190-204) Propompoi (TrGF F209) Women (or Men) of Salamis (TrGF 3 F216-20) Semele, or Water-Carriers (TrGF 3 F221-4) Telephus (TrGF 3 F238-40) Female Archers (TrGF 3 F241-6) Nurses (TrGF 3 F246a-d) Hypsipyle (TrGF 3 F247-8) Philoctetes (TrGF 3 F249-57) Phineus (TrGF 3 F258-60) Daughters of Phorcys (TrGF 3 F261-2) Phrygians (TrGF 3 F263-72) Psychagôgoi (TrGF 3 F273-8) Psychostasia (TrGF 3 F279-80a) Oreithuia (TrGF 3 F281) 2 Sophocles Athamas I and II (TrGF 4 F1-10) Locrian Ajax (TrGF 4 F10a-18) Aegeus (TrGF 4 F19-25a) Ethiopians (TrGF 4 F28-33) Memnon (TrGF 4, p. 347) Female Prisoners (TrGF 4 F33a-59) Acrisius (TrGF 4 F60-76) Danae (TrGF 4 F165-70) Men of Larissa (TrGF 4 F378-83) Children of Aleus (TrGF F77-91) Alexandros (TrGF 4 F91a-100a) Alcmeon (TrGF 4 F108-10) Epigoni (TrGF 4 F185-90) Eriphyle (TrGF 4 F201a-h) Amphitryon (TrGF 4 F122-4) Andromache (TrGF 4 F125) Andromeda (TrGF 4 F126-36) Sons of Antenor (TrGF 4 F137-9) Atreus (TrGF 4 F140-1) Women of Mycenae (TrGF 4 F140-1) Thyestes I, II and III (TrGF 4 F247-69) The Gathering of the Achaeans (TrGF 4 F143-8) Fellow-Diners (TrGF 4 F562-71) Daedalus (TrGF 4 F158-164a) Men of Camicus (TrGF 4 F323-7) Minos (TrGF 4 F407) Dolopians (TrGF F174-5) The Demand for Helen’s Return (TrGF 4 F176-180a) Hermione (TrGF 4 F202-3) Eumelus (TrGF 4 F204-5) Euryalus (TrGF 4, pp. 194–5) Eurypylus (TrGF 4 F206-222b) Eurysaces (TrGF 4 F223) Erigone (TrGF 4 F235-6) Thamyras (TrGF 4 F236a-245) (?) Muses (TrGF 4 F407a-408) Theseus (TrGF 4 F246) Ixion (TrGF 4 F296) Iobates (TrGF 4 F297-9) Hipponous (TrGF 4 F300-304) Iphigenia (TrGF 4 F305-12) Ion (TrGF 4 F319-22) Creusa (TrGF 4 F350-9) Clytemnestra (TrGF 4 F334) Women of Colchis (TrGF 4 F337-46) Spartan Women (TrGF 4 F367-369a) Laocoon (TrGF 4 F370-77) Women of Lemnos (TrGF 4 F384-9) Prophets, or Polyidus (TrGF 4 F389a-400) Meleager (TrGF 4 F401-6) Mysians (TrGF 4 F409-18) Nauplius I and II (TrGF 4 F425-38) Nausicaa, or Washerwomen (TrGF 4 F439-41) Niobe (TrGF 4 F441a-451) The Footwashing (TrGF 4 F451a) Odysseus Wounded by the Spine (TrGF 4 F453-461a) Mad Odysseus (TrGF 4 F462-7) Oenomaus (TrGF 4 F471-7) Palamedes (TrGF 4 F478-81) Peleus (TrGF 4 F487-96) Shepherds (TrGF 4 F497-21) Polyxena (TrGF 4 F522-8) Priam (TrGF 4 F528a-532) Procris (TrGF 4 F533) Root-Cutters (TrGF 4 F543-6) Sinon (TrGF 4 F542-4) Scythians (TrGF 4 F546-552) Scyrians (TrGF 4 F553-61) Tantalus (TrGF 4 F572-3) Teucer (TrGF 4 F576-579b) Telephus (TrGF 4 F580) Tereus (TrGF 4 F581-595b) Triptolemus (TrGF 4 F596-617a) Troilus (TrGF 4 F618-35) Percussion-Players (TrGF 4 F636-45) Tyndareus (TrGF 4 F646-7) Tyro (TrGF 4 F648-669a) Water-Carriers (TrGF 4 F672-4) Phaeacians (TrGF 4 F675-6) Phaedra (TrGF 4 F677-93) Phthian Women (TrGF 4 F694-6) Philoctetes at Troy (TrGF 4 F697-703) Phineus I and II (TrGF 4 F704-717a) Phoenix (TrGF 4 F718-20) Phrixus (TrGF 4 F721-723a) Phrygians (TrGF 4 F724-5) Chryses (TrGF 4 F726-30) 3 Euripides Aegeus (TrGF 5 F1-13) Aeolus (TrGF 5 F13a-41) Alexandros (TrGF 5 F41a-63) Alcmeon I and II (TrGF 5 F65-87a) Alcmene (TrGF 5 F87b-104) Alope (TrGF 5 F105-113) Andromeda (TrGF 5 F114-56) Antigone (TrGF 5 F157-78) Antiope (TrGF 5 F179-227) Archelaus (TrGF 5 F228-64) Auge (TrGF 5 F 264a-281) Bellerophon (TrGF 5 F285-312) Danae (TrGF 5 F316-330a) Dictys (TrGF 5 F330b-348) Erechtheus (TrGF 5 F349-70) Theseus (TrGF 5 F381-90) Thyestes (TrGF 5 F391-397b) Ino (TrGF 5 F398-423) Ixion (TrGF 5 F424-7) Hippolytus I (TrGF 5 F428-47) Cresphontes (TrGF 5 F448a-59) Cretan Women (TrGF 5 F460-70a) Cretans (TrGF 5 F471-472g) Licymnius (TrGF 5 F473-9) Melanippe I and II (TrGF 5 F480-514) Meleager (TrGF 5 F515-39) Oedipus (TrGF 5 F539a-557) Oeneus (TrGF 5 F558-70) Oenomaus (TrGF 5 F571-7) Palamedes (TrGF 5 F578-90) Daughters of Pelias (TrGF 5 F601-16) Peleus (TrGF 5 F617-24) Pleisthenes (TrGF 5 F625-33) Polyidus (TrGF 5 F634-46) Protesilaus (TrGF 5 F646a-657) Stheneboea (TrGF 5 F661-71) Scyrians (TrGF 5 F681a-686) Telephus (TrGF 5 F696-727c) Temenus and Children of Temenus (TrGF 5 F727e-751a) Hypsipyle (TrGF 5 F752-69) Phaethon (TrGF 5 F771-86) Philoctetes (TrGF 5 F787-803) Phoenix (TrGF 5 F803a-18) Phrixus I and II (TrGF 5 F818c-838) Chrysippus (TrGF 5 F838a-844) 4 Unfamiliar Faces Oedipus Antigone Medea 5 Lost Tragedies in Performance Changes of scene in Aeschylus’ Women of Aetna The entry of the chorus in Aeschylus’ Daughters of Nereus The metamorphosis in Sophocles’ Tereus The weighing-scales in Aeschylus’ Psychostasia Music and mask in Sophocles’ Thamyras Mass-murder in Sophocles’ Niobe Niobe’s stony silence in Aeschylus’ Niobe Visual intertextuality in Euripides’ Andromeda Monologue and mask in Euripides’ Melanippe the Wise Baby and lullaby in Euripides’ Hypsipyle Costumes and props in Euripides’ Telephus Earthquake and demolition in Euripides’ Erechtheus Bibliography and Abbreviations Index