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Euripides Alcestis

By Euripides , L. P. E. Parker (editor)

Book information

Publisher
OUP OXFORD
Year
2007
ISBN
0199254664, 9780199254668
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2003036 bytes)
Edition
Critical ed.
Pages
396\396
Time added
2020-03-24 22:56:11

Description

Alcestis is one of Euripides' richest and most brilliant - as well as most controversial - plays. But, apart from D. J. Conacher's student text, no annotated edition in English has appeared for more than fifty years. The present work is designed to aid close reading and to serve as an introduction to the serious study of the play in its various aspects. The introduction covers the background to the story in myth and folktale, its treatment by other writers from antiquity to the present, the critical reception of Euripides' play, and its textual transmission and metres. Preface Contents Abbreviations Introduction Sources for the Text Symbols used in the Apparatus Metrical Symbols and Abbreviations TEXT Commentary Editions: A Select List Select Bibliography Index I: English Index II: Greek

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