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Euripides
Euripides
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Description for Euripides
Hardcover. Eighteen of the ninety or so plays composed by Euripides between 455 and 406 BCE survive in a complete form and are included in the first six volumes of the "Loeb Euripides". This title discusses the evidence for the lost plays. Editor(s): Collard, Christopher; Cropp, Martin. Translator(s): Collard, Christopher; Cropp, Martin. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 172 x 115 x 38. Weight in Grams: 496.
Lost works by ancient Greece’s third great tragedian.
Eighteen of the ninety or so plays composed by Euripides between 455 and 406 BC survive in a complete form and are included in the preceding six volumes of the Loeb Euripides. A further fifty-two tragedies and eleven satyr plays, including a few of disputed authorship, are known from ancient quotations and references and from numerous papyri discovered since 1880. No more than one-fifth of any play is represented, but many can be reconstructed with some accuracy in outline, and many of the fragments ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
672
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Series
Loeb Classical Library
Condition
New
Number of Pages
736
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674996311
SKU
V9780674996311
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Ref
99-15
About Euripides
Christopher Collard is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Wales, Swansea. Martin Cropp is Professor Emeritus of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Calgary, Canada.
Reviews for Euripides
Euripides keeps us on the edge of our seats, whipping up pity, fear, surprise and shock in large doses... The splendid new two-volume Loeb edition of the fragments of Euripides, of which the second volume has just appeared, is a comforting reminder that we actually have fairly substantial knowledge of many Euripidean “lost” plays as well.
Emily Wilson
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Emily Wilson
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