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A COMPANION TO EURIPIDES
A COMPANION TO EURIPIDES
Euripides has enjoyed a resurgence of interest as a result of many recent important publications, attesting to the poet's enduring relevance to the modern world. A Companion to Euripides is the product of this contemporary work, with many essays drawing on the latest texts, commentaries, and scholarship on the man and his oeuvre.
Divided into seven sections, the companion begins with a general discussion of Euripidean drama. The following sections contain essays on Euripidean biography and the manuscript tradition, and individual essays on each play, organized in chronological order. Chapters offer summaries of important scholarship and methodologies, synopses of individual plays and the myths from which they borrow their plots, and conclude with suggestions for additional reading. The final two sections deal with topics central to Euripidean scholarship, such as religion, myth, and gender, and the reception of Euripides from the 4th century BCE to the modern world.
A Companion to Euripides brings together a variety of leading Euripides scholars from a wide range of perspectives. As a result, specific issues and themes emerge across the chapters as central to our understanding of the poet and his meaning for our time. Contributions are original and provocative interpretations of Euripides' plays, which forge important paths of inquiry for future scholarship.
List of contents
Notes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xiii
List of Abbreviations xiv
1 Introduction 1
Laura K. McClure
Part I Text, Author, and Tradition 9
2 Text and Transmission 11
Donald J. Mastronarde
3 The Euripidean Biography 27
Ruth Scodel
4 Euripides and the Development of Greek Tragedy 42
John Gibert
Part II Early Plays (438-416 BCE) 59
5 Alcestis 61
Eirene Visvardi
6 Medea 80
Laura Swift
7 Children of Heracles 92
Owen E. Goslin
8 Hippolytus 107
Mary Ebbott
9 Andromache 122
Ian C. Storey
10 Hecuba 136
Daniel Turkeltaub
11 Suppliant Women 152
Laura K. McClure
12 Electra 166
Hanna M. Roisman
13 Heracles: The Perfect Piece 182
C.W. Marshall
Part III Later Plays (After 416 BCE) 197
14 Trojan Women 199
Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
15 Iphigenia in Tauris 214
Jennifer Clarke Kosak
16 Ion: An Edible Fairy Tale? 228
Emma M. Griffiths
17 Significant Inconsistencies in Euripides' Helen 243
Deborah Boedeker
18 Phoenician Women 258
Anna A. Lamari
19 Orestes 270
Elton Barker
20 Iphigenia at Aulis 284
Isabelle Torrance
21 Bacchae 298
Laurialan Reitzammer
Part IV Satyr, Spurious, and Fragmentary Plays 313
22 Cyclops 315
Patrick O'Sullivan
23 Rhesus 334
Vayos Liapis
24 Fragments and Fragmentary Plays 347
Christopher Collard
Part V Form, Structure, and Performance 365
25 Form and Structure 367
Markus Dubischar
26 The Theater of Euripides 390
David Kawalko Roselli
27 The Euripidean Chorus 412
Sheila Murnaghan
28 Euripides and the Sound of Music 428
Armand D'Angour
Part VI Topics and Approaches 445
29 Euripides and his Intellectual Context 447
Francis M. Dunn
30 Myth 468
Matthew Wright
31 Euripides and Religion 483
Judith Fletcher
32 Gender 500
Melissa Mueller
Part VII Reception 515
33 Euripides, Aristophanes, and the Reception of "Sophistic" Styles 517
Nancy Worman
34 Euripides in the Fourth Century BCE 533
Anne Duncan
35 Euripides and Senecan Drama 546
Christopher Star
36 All Aboard the Bacchae Bus: Reception of Euripides in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries 565
Barbara Goff
Index 583
About the author
Laura K. McClure is Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her books include Spoken Like a Woman: Speech and Gender in Athenian Drama (1999) and Courtesans at Table: Gender and Greek Literary Culture in Athenaeus (2003). She has edited volumes on women and gender in the classical world and published articles on Athenian drama.
Summary
A COMPANION TO EURIPIDES
A COMPANION TO EURIPIDES
Euripides has enjoyed a resurgence of interest as a result of many recent important publications, attesting to the poet's enduring relevance to the modern world. A Companion to Euripides is the product of this contemporary work, with many essays drawing on the latest texts, commentaries, and scholarship on the man and his oeuvre.
Divided into seven sections, the companion begins with a general discussion of Euripidean drama. The following sections contain essays on Euripidean biography and the manuscript tradition, and individual essays on each play, organized in chronological order. Chapters offer summaries of important scholarship and methodologies, synopses of individual plays and the myths from which they borrow their plots, and conclude with suggestions for additional reading. The final two sections deal with topics central to Euripidean scholarship, such as religion, myth, and gender, and the reception of Euripides from the 4th century BCE to the modern world.
A Companion to Euripides brings together a variety of leading Euripides scholars from a wide range of perspectives. As a result, specific issues and themes emerge across the chapters as central to our understanding of the poet and his meaning for our time. Contributions are original and provocative interpretations of Euripides' plays, which forge important paths of inquiry for future scholarship.
