Euripidou Hekabe, Orestes, Phoenissae Kai Medea

By Euripides

Book Overview

This edition by Richard Porson (1759-1808) of Euripides' plays was published posthumously in 1820. It contains the Greek text of Euripides' four most popular plays: Hecuba, Orestes, The Phoenician Women and Medea, which had previously been published as individual titles. Each play is preceded by a list of manuscript witnesses and accompanied by a running Latin commentary, containing detailed text-critical, exegetical and philological notes. The volume is introduced by a Latin preface and supplement which expound Porson's theories on the metrical rules followed by Attic poets. Porson explains how he used these theories as a tool to make judgements between variant readings. These critical texts on the tragedies have been widely used by students of classical Greek tragedy and a number of English translations have been based on his reconstructed text. Porson's commentaries have been used by many generations of classical students in both Latin and English translation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Greek, Ancient (To 1453)
• ISBN: 1108015417
• ISBN13: 9781108015417
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"