Oxford Classical Texts : Euripides : Fabulae: Volume III: Helena, Phoenissae, Orestes, Bacchae, Iphigenia Aulidensis, Rhesus
by James Diggle (Editor), Euripides (Writer)
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This volume brings to completion James Diggle's major new edition of all the surviving plays of Euripides. The work is based on fresh collations of all the relevant manuscripts, incorporating many new ideas for the improvement of the text suggested by recent scholars and by the editor himself.Tags
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Euripides was born in Attica, Greece probably in 480 B.C. He was the youngest of the three principal fifth-century tragic poets. In his youth he cultivated gymnastic pursuits and studied philosophy and rhetoric. Soon after he received recognition for a play that he had written, Euripides left Athens for the court of Archelaus, king of Macedonia. show more Fragments of about fifty-five plays survive. Among his best-known plays are Alcestis, Medea and Philoctetes, Electra, Iphigenia in Tauris, The Trojan Women, and Iphigenia in Aulis Iphigenia. He died in Athens in 406 B.C. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Oxford Classical Texts : Euripides : Fabulae: Volume III: Helena, Phoenissae, Orestes, Bacchae, Iphigenia Aulidensis, Rhesus
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- Bacchae; Cyclops; Helen; Iphigenia in Aulis; Orestes; Phoenician Women (show all 7); Rhesus
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- 882.01 — Literature & rhetoric Classical & modern Greek literatures Classical Greek dramatic poetry and drama standard subdivisions; collections; history, description, critical appraisal; Specific periods Ancient period to ca. 499
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- PA3973 .A2 — Language and Literature Greek language and literature. Latin language and literature Greek literature Individual authors Euripedes
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