Hippolytos

by Euripides, W. S. Barrett

Overview

Euripides' Hippolytos tells of an honourable youth's tragic death, contrived by his father in the false belief that his son had seduced his new wife. This edition of the play is intended for students and scholars alike. The text is based upon new collations of the medieval manuscripts (two of them hitherto uncollated) and on all known papyri. The introduction contains a significant reappraisal, in light of the evidences of papyri, of the history of the text in antiquity, and advances a new account of the relationship between the medieval manuscripts. There is also a full discussion of the earlier history of the legend and of two of the lost tragedies on the same theme.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198147497
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/16/1992
Series:	Clarendon Paperbacks
Edition description:	Oxford University Edition
Pages:	470
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.08(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Peter Roth, Universität Augsburg.

Editorial Reviews

"[A] profoundly learned and supremely intelligent book...a truly great achievement."—H. Lloyd-Jones, Journal of Hellenic Studies

"This book...deserves the careful attention of everyone seriously interested in Greek literature."—B.A. Sparks, Journal of Hellenic Studies

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