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A Companion to Euripides
Laura K. McClure (Edited by)
9781119257509, Wiley
Hardback, published 30 December 2016
640 pages
24.6 x 17.5 x 3.8 cm, 1.089 kg
"This Companion highlights the performative and contextual aspects of old plays, making experienced researchers look afresh to them and presenting itself as a great introduction for students and young scholars." Sofia Frade, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, Centro de Estudos Clássicos, Cadmo – Revista de História Antiga, Cadmo 27
A COMPANION TO EURIPIDES A COMPANION TO EURIPIDES Euripides has enjoyed a resurgence of interest as a result of many recent important publications, attesting to the poet’s enduring relevance to the modern world. A Companion to Euripides is the product of this contemporary work, with many essays drawing on the latest texts, commentaries, and scholarship on the man and his oeuvre. Divided into seven sections, the companion begins with a general discussion of Euripidean drama. The following sections contain essays on Euripidean biography and the manuscript tradition, and individual essays on each play, organized in chronological order. Chapters offer summaries of important scholarship and methodologies, synopses of individual plays and the myths from which they borrow their plots, and conclude with suggestions for additional reading. The final two sections deal with topics central to Euripidean scholarship, such as religion, myth, and gender, and the reception of Euripides from the 4th century BCE to the modern world. A Companion to Euripides brings together a variety of leading Euripides scholars from a wide range of perspectives. As a result, specific issues and themes emerge across the chapters as central to our understanding of the poet and his meaning for our time. Contributions are original and provocative interpretations of Euripides’ plays, which forge important paths of inquiry for future scholarship.
Notes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xiii List of Abbreviations xiv 1 Introduction 1 Part I Text, Author, and Tradition 9 2 Text and Transmission 11 3 The Euripidean Biography 27 4 Euripides and the Development of Greek Tragedy 42 Part II Early Plays (438–416 BCE) 59 5 Alcestis 61 6 Medea 80 7 Children of Heracles 92 8 Hippolytus 107 9 Andromache 122 10 Hecuba 136 11 Suppliant Women 152 12 Electra 166 13 Heracles: The Perfect Piece 182 Part III Later Plays (After 416 BCE) 197 14 Trojan Women 199 15 Iphigenia in Tauris 214 16 Ion: An Edible Fairy Tale? 228 17 Significant Inconsistencies in Euripides’ Helen 243 18 Phoenician Women 258 19 Orestes 270 20 Iphigenia at Aulis 284 21 Bacchae 298 Part IV Satyr, Spurious, and Fragmentary Plays 313 22 Cyclops 315 23 Rhesus 334 24 Fragments and Fragmentary Plays 347 Part V Form, Structure, and Performance 365 25 Form and Structure 367 26 The Theater of Euripides 390 27 The Euripidean Chorus 412 28 Euripides and the Sound of Music 428 Part VI Topics and Approaches 445 29 Euripides and his Intellectual Context 447 30 Myth 468 31 Euripides and Religion 483 32 Gender 500 Part VII Reception 515 33 Euripides, Aristophanes, and the Reception of “Sophistic” Styles 517 34 Euripides in the Fourth Century BCE 533 35 Euripides and Senecan Drama 546 36 All Aboard the Bacchae Bus: Reception of Euripides in the Twentieth and Twenty‐first Centuries 565 Index 583
Laura K. McClure
Donald J. Mastronarde
Ruth Scodel
John Gibert
Eirene Visvardi
Laura Swift
Owen E. Goslin
Mary Ebbott
Ian C. Storey
Daniel Turkeltaub
Laura K. McClure
Hanna M. Roisman
C.W. Marshall
Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
Jennifer Clarke Kosak
Emma M. Griffiths
Deborah Boedeker
Anna A. Lamari
Elton Barker
Isabelle Torrance
Laurialan Reitzammer
Patrick O’Sullivan
Vayos Liapis
Christopher Collard
Markus Dubischar
David Kawalko Roselli
Sheila Murnaghan
Armand D’Angour
Francis M. Dunn
Matthew Wright
Judith Fletcher
Melissa Mueller
Nancy Worman
Anne Duncan
Christopher Star
Barbara Goff
Subject Areas: History [HB]
