by Euripides · Oxford University Press, USA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780198147497
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This edition of Euripides' Hippolytos is intended for students and scholars alike. The text is based on new collations of the medieval manuscripts and on all known papyri. The introduction contains a reappraisal of the history of the text in antiquity, in the light of the evidence of the papyri, and advances a new account of the relationship between the medieval manuscripts. It also includes a detailed analysis of the lyric metres, and discussion of the play's subject-matter and dramatic context.
Euripides was a Greek tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three authors of Greek tragedy whose name is ascribed to surviving plays. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, but the Suda says it was ninety-two at most. Nineteen plays attributed to Euripides have survived more or less complete, although one of these (Rhesus) is often considered not to be genuinely his work. Many fragments survive from most of his other plays. More of his plays have survived intact than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, partly because his popularity grew as theirs declined: he became, in the Hellenistic Age, a cornerstone of ancient literary education, along with Homer, Demosthenes, and Menander.
