Euripides Loeb Classical Library 8 volume set

Euripides, Christopher Collard (editor and translator volume 1 and 2), Martin Cropp (editor and translator volume 1 and 2), David Kovacs ( editor and translator volume 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8)

ISBN 10: 0674996313 / ISBN 13: 9780674996311

Published by Harvard University Press, 2008

About this Item

16mo, 16.5 cm, 11 cm, Volume 1: 413 pp., Volume 2: 519 pp., Volume 3: 455 pp., Volume 4: 511 pp., Volume 5: 605 pp., Volume 6: 455 pp., Volume 7: 640 pp., Volume 8: 710 pp., Volume 1 is "Cyclops, Alcestis, Medea" and has the LCL number of 12, Volume 2 is "Children of Heracles, Hippolytus, Andromache, Hecuba" and has the LCL number of 484, Volume 3 is "Suppliant Women, Electra, Heracles" and has the LCL number of 9, Volume 4 is "Trojan Women, Iphigenia Among the Taurians, Ion" and has the LCL number of 10, Volume 5 is "Helen, Phoenician Women, Orestes" and has the LCL number of 11, Volume 6 is "Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus" and has an LCL number of 495, Volume 7 is "Fragments: Aegeus-Meleager" and has an LCL number of 504, Volume 8 is "Fragments: Oedipus-Chrysippus and Other Fragments" and has an LCL number of 506. Volume 1 has some shelf wear on the dust jacket and a small chip on the top of the back of the dust jacket cover. Volume 2 has some shelf wear on the dust jacket and an old price sticker over the ISBN and a red mark on the fore-edge. Volume 3 has some shelf wear on the dust jacket. Volume 4 has a new translation sticker on the front of the dust jacket cover and there is some shelf wear on the dust jacket. Volume 5 has some shelf wear on the dust jacket. Volume 6 has some shelf wear on the dust jacket. Volume 7 has some shelf wear on the dust jacket. Volume 8 has some shelf wear on the dust jacket. All of the volumes contain both Greek and English text. Volume 1: Fine, Volume 2: Fine, Volume 3: Fine, Volume 4: Fine, Volume 5: Fine, Volume 6: Fine, Volume 7: Fine, Volume 8: Fine Volume 1: Near fine, Volume 2: Near fine, Volume 3: Near fine, Volume 4: Near fine, Volume 5: Near fine, Volume 6: Near fine, Volume 7: Near fine, Volume 8: Near fine.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Euripides Loeb Classical Library 8 volume set
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0674996313
• ISBN 13: 9780674996311
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Loeb Classical Library.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Ancient History
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

Lost works by ancient Greece’s third great tragedian.

Eighteen of the ninety or so plays composed by Euripides between 455 and 406 BC survive in a complete form and are included in the preceding six volumes of the Loeb Euripides. A further fifty-two tragedies and eleven satyr plays, including a few of disputed authorship, are known from ancient quotations and references and from numerous papyri discovered since 1880. No more than one-fifth of any play is represented, but many can be reconstructed with some accuracy in outline, and many of the fragments are striking in themselves. The extant plays and the fragments together make Euripides by far the best known of the classic Greek tragedians.

This edition, in a projected two volumes, offers the first complete English translation of the fragments together with a selection of testimonia bearing on the content of the plays. The texts are based on the recent comprehensive edition of R. Kannicht. A general Introduction discusses the evidence for the lost plays. Each play is prefaced by a select bibliography and an introductory discussion of its mythical background, plot, and location of the fragments, general character, chronology, and impact on subsequent literary and artistic traditions.

About the Authors

Christopher Collard is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Wales, Swansea.

Martin Cropp is Professor Emeritus of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Calgary, Canada.