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Pseudo-Euripides, ’Rhesus’

✍ Scribed by Almut Fries


Publisher
Walter de Gruyter
Year
2014
Tongue
English
Leaves
537
Series
Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte 114
Category
Library

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✦ Synopsis


The pseudo-Euripidean Rhesus is the only extant Greek tragedy based on an episode from Homer’s Iliad and a unique witness for the history of the genre in the 4th century BC. This new edition, with introduction and commentary, discusses textual problems, language, metre and dramaturgy as well as the mythological and literary-historical background of the play. It is an indispensable aid for serious students of the text.

✦ Table of Contents


Introduction
I. The Play
II. Plot and Myth
III. Authenticity and Date
IV. Textual Tradition
V. The Edition

Text and Critical Apparatus
Conspectus Siglorum
Ὑπόθεσις Ῥήσου
Ῥῆσος

Commentary
The Hypotheses
The Play

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