EURIPIDES Selected Fragmentary Plays, Volume I

The fragmentary plays of Euripides are a body of texts still regularly increasing in number and extent. They are of very great interest in themselves, apart from the significant aid they give to the fuller appreciation of the surviving complete plays. This two-volume edition brings together for the first time for English readers the more substantial and important of the plays, about fifteen in all. Each play is introduced by a summary bibliography and an appreciative essay which analyses the mythic background and plot: reconstructs the play as far as the fragmentary text and secondary evidence allow; and discusses themes, characterisation, staging, date, reflections of the story in art and other dramatisations. For each play the fragmentary texts are presented as conveniently and succinctly as possible, together with a brief critical apparatus of sources and readings. An English translation stands on the facing page. The text and translation of each play are followed by a short, primarily interpretative commentary.

C. Collard is Emeritus Professor of Classics, University of Wales, Swansea and the General Editor of this series of Euripides plays.
M.J. Cropp is Professor of Classics, University of Calgary, Canada.
K.H. Lee is Professor of Classics, University of Sydney, Australia.
All three authors have published commentaries and numerous articles on Euripides.

Vol. I: Telephus, Cretans, Stheneboea, Bellerophon, Cresphontes, Melanippe Sophe, Melanippe Desmotis, Erechtheus, Phaethon (438 to about 418 B.C.)

288pp. (1995) cl 618 2 £35 / $59.99, pb 619 0 £16.50 / $28

(In preparation)
Selected Fragmentary Plays Volume II: Alexandros (together with Palamedes and Sisyphus), Oedipus, Andromeda, Antiope, Hypsipyle, Archelaus (415 to about 407 B.C.)
An index to both volumes will be printed in Volume II. c.200pp. cl 620 4, pb 621 2

CONTENTS General Editor's Foreword Preface General Introduction Bibliography and Abbreviations GREEK TEXT AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION

SOME COMMENTS BY REVIEWERS
"The authors succinctly and authoritatively survey the different catagories of evidence ... here is Euripides at his most innovative and refreshing." JACT

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