EURIPIDES: PHAETHON Edited with Prolegomena and Commentary. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Cambridge University Press, 1970

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Year of publication

1970

Author

Euripides, James Diggle (Ed. )

Publishers

Cambridge University Press

Keyword

Poetry & Poets Euripides Classical Greek & Roman Greek, Literature Plays & Drama

Cover description

Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Binding description

Hardcover ISBN 0521077001

Description

Scholar's name to ffep (D. Gerber). Very minor shelfwear to DJ. ; Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries 12; 256 pages; The surviving text of the fragmentary Phaethon of Euripides depends chiefly on two sources: two pages from a Euripidean manuscript, written about A.D. 500, and a papyrus of the third century B.C., which contains a substantial part of the parodos. These sources are supplemented by a number of citations in classical authors and by a recently published fragmentary hypothesis. Professor Diggle has examined all the manuscript evidence and offers many decipherments. He gives a text of the play and of the hypothesis, an exegetical commentary, prolegomena and appendices, in which he discusses the treatment of the Phaethon myth in classical literature and attempts a reconstruction of the plot of the play.