Tragedy, Euripides and Euripideans

This volume brings together forty years of scholarship by one of the major scholars of Greek tragedy and of Euripides over several decades. Of the twenty papers collected here, thirteen explore tragedy in general and Euripides in particular, but with emphasis on textual questions - transmission, interpretation, verbal criticism - and dramatic form. The other seven evaluate important Euripidean scholars from the 17th to the 19th centuries including Joshua Barnes, Jeremiah Markland, S....
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This volume brings together forty years of scholarship by one of the major scholars of Greek tragedy and of Euripides over several decades. Of the twenty papers collected here, thirteen explore tragedy in general and Euripides in particular, but with emphasis on textual questions - transmission, interpretation, verbal criticism - and dramatic form. The other seven evaluate important Euripidean scholars from the 17th to the 19th centuries including Joshua Barnes, Jeremiah Markland, S. Musgrave, Peter Elmsley and J. H. Monk.