ENGLISH

Hippolytos

By Euripides , W. S. Barrett

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
1992
ISBN
019814749X, 9780198147497
Open Library ID
OL22330464M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
45 MB (46768149 bytes)
Series
Clarendon Paperbacks
Pages
472\463
Time added
2011-04-20 14:05:05

Description

Euripides' 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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