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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