| Description | | - The first fully annotated edition of Alcestis
for more than fifty years
- Includes a wide-ranging introduction, covering a variety of aspects of the play
- Notes provide clear explanations of linguistic difficulties, and are designed to help readers who have not been learning Greek for long
| | Alcestis
is one of Euripides' richest and most brilliant - as well as most controversial - plays. But, apart from D. J. Conacher's student text, no annotated edition in English has appeared for more than fifty years. The present work is designed to aid close reading and to serve as an introduction to the serious study of the play in its various aspects. The introduction covers the
background to the story in myth and folktale, its treatment by other writers from antiquity to the present, the critical reception of Euripides' play, and its textual transmission and metres. The notes are designed in particular to help readers who have been learning Greek for a relatively short time. More advanced matter, such as discussion of textual problems, is placed in square brackets at the
end of the note.
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Readership: Scholars and students of classical literature.
| Contents |
Introduction
Sources for the text
Symbols used in the apparatus
Metrical symbols and abbreviations
The hypotheses
The characters
Text
Commentary
Editions: a select list
Select bibliograph
Indexes
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Edited by L. P. E. Parker, Oxford University (Emerita)
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