Euripides -- Criticism and interpretation; Mythology, Greek, in literature; Tragedy
FRAGMENTS.--_Fragmenta Tragicorum Graecorum_ by Nauck (Leipzig,
second edition, 1889): this fine book still holds the field (26s.).
_Supplementum Euripideum_ by H. von Arnim (Bonn, 1912). (Price 2s.)
Contains the recent papyrus discoveries; a convenient and learned
little book, defaced by metrical errors.
TEXTS WITH COMMENTARY.--Paley, 3 vols., 8s. each (Cambridge, second
edition, 1880). Though old-fashioned and often based on wrong
information about the MSS. and other matters this is a most sound
and thoughtful work. Of the numerous modern editions (especially
school editions) of particular plays we may mention _Euripides'
Herakles_ erklärt von Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (first
edition, Berlin, 1889); since re-edited in two volumes. This is an
epoch-making book, and together with the same author's _Analecta
Euripidea_ (1875) has laid the foundation for modern criticism:
also Verrall's Medea, Sandys' Bacchae, Keene's Electra, Powell's
Phoenissae. In French, Weil's _Sept Tragédies d'Euripide_; in
German Bruhn's editions of the Iphigenia in Tauris and the Bacchae
deserve special note.
TRANSLATIONS.--There are complete translations of the extant plays
in prose by Coleridge (Bohn) and in verse by A. Way (Macmillan). A
good prose translation, which should really bring out the full
meaning of the Greek, is greatly needed. By Murray there are at
present translations of the following plays: Hippolytus, Bacchae,
Trojan Women, Electra, Medea, Iphigenia in Tauris, Rhesus. In paper
1s. each, in cloth 2s. (George Allen).
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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