Euripidou Hekabe, Orestes, Phoenissae Kai Medea

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-1-108-01541-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Greek, Ancient (to 1453), 467 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 661 g

Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Classics

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Porson, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Editionen, Kritische Editionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; Hecuba; Orestes; The Phoenician Women; Medea; Supplement.