Euripides Danae and Dictys: Introduction, Text and Commentary

✍ Scribed by Ioanna Karamanou

• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 319
• Series: Beitrage zur Altertumskunde 228
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Euripides' Danae and Dictys are two of the most important and influential treatments of a popular tragic myth-cycle, which is unrepresented among extant plays. Moreover, they are early treatments of major Euripidean plot-patterns that anticipate and illuminate more familiar works in the corpus, both extant and fragmentary. This is the first full-scale study of the two plays, which sheds light on plot-patterns, key themes and aspects of Euripidean dramatic technique (e.g. his rhetoric, imagery, stagecraft), as well as matters of reception and transmission of both tragedies, by taking into account newly related evidence. The cautious recovery of the two lost plays based on the available evidence and the detailed commentary on their fragments seek to complement our knowledge of Euripidean drama by contributing to an overview and more comprehensive picture of the dramatist's technique, as the extant corpus represents only a small portion of his oeuvre.

✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter......Page 1
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 9
Abbreviations......Page 11
General introduction......Page 15
Euripides' Danae......Page 25
Euripides' Dictys......Page 143
Appendix Euripides and Danae's Legend in Late Antiquity......Page 249
Bibliography......Page 263
General Index......Page 302
Plates......Page 315