Euripides Fabulae: Vol. III by James Diggle
This third and final volume brings to completion James Diggle's major new edition of all the surviving plays of Euripides. It supersedes the third volume of Murray's Oxford Text of 1909. The work is based on new collations of all the relevant manuscripts and incorporates many new ideas for the improvement of the text suggested by recent scholars and the editor himself.
Praise for VolsI and II:The virtues of this first-rate edition are too numerous to catalogue, and in any case, since they will stand enshrined in what is undoubtedly to be the standard text of Euripides for the next generation or two, they will receive as their just requital the gratitude of countless scholars and students in the future." Classical Philology
Diggle is to be congratulated for the high achievement represented by this volume ... We look forward to the third ... and are tempted to wish for a fourth. * Classical Philology *
Diggle is to be congratulated for the high achievement represented by this volume ... We look forward to the third ... and are tempted to wish for a fourth. * Classical Philology *
Euripides: - Euripides (484-406 BC) was a Greek dramatist. The last major tragic playwright of the classical world, he has also been called the first modern. Euripides was not highly successful in his lifetime, winning the first of only five victories at the Dionysia at the age of 43. By the end of the 19th century, however, Euripides was the most acclaimed Greek playwright. And, when the Royal Shakespeare Company presented a ten-play cycle The Greeks in 1980, seven of the works were by Euripides. Only 17 of his 92 plays survive. These include Medea, The Bacchae and Electra. Euripides's innovations included the deus ex machina and the formal prologue. He used simple everyday language, bringing a new realism to the stage. Although contemporaries accused him of killing tragedy, he humanized drama by adding elements of sentiment, romance, and even comedy. He was the first to argue against the social inferiority of women, and the first to show women in love. He was also the first to explore such subjects as madness and repression. A recluse, he shunned Athenian civil and social affairs, and in later life would sit all day in a cave on Salamis overlooking the sea as he contemplated and wrote something great and high. In 408 BC Euripides was exiled for his unorthodox views to Macedonia, where he died less than two years later. According to tradition, when the Spartans arrived to burn Athens, they desisted after a reminder that this was Euripides's city.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198145950 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198145950 |
| Title | Euripides Fabulae: Vol. III |
| Author | James Diggle |
| Series | Oxford Classical Texts |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1994-07-14 |
| Number of pages | 496 |
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