Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xiii
List of Abbreviations xiv
1 Introduction 1Laura K. McClure
Part I Text, Author, and Tradition 9
2 Text and Transmission 11Donald J. Mastronarde
3 The Euripidean Biography 27Ruth Scodel
4 Euripides and the Development of Greek Tragedy 42John Gibert
Part II Early Plays (438–416 BCE) 59
5 Alcestis 61Eirene Visvardi
6 Medea 80Laura Swift
7 Children of Heracles 92Owen E. Goslin
8 Hippolytus 107Mary Ebbott
9 Andromache 122Ian C. Storey
10 Hecuba 136Daniel Turkeltaub
11 Suppliant Women 152Laura K. McClure
12 Electra 166Hanna M. Roisman
13 Heracles: The Perfect Piece 182C.W. Marshall
Part III Later Plays (After 416 BCE) 197
14 Trojan Women 199Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
15 Iphigenia in Tauris 214Jennifer Clarke Kosak
16 Ion: An Edible Fairy Tale? 228Emma M. Griffiths
17 Significant Inconsistencies in Euripides’ Helen 243Deborah Boedeker
18 Phoenician Women 258Anna A. Lamari
19 Orestes 270Elton Barker
20 Iphigenia at Aulis 284Isabelle Torrance
21 Bacchae 298Laurialan Reitzammer
Part IV Satyr, Spurious, and Fragmentary Plays 313
22 Cyclops 315Patrick O’Sullivan
23 Rhesus 334Vayos Liapis
24 Fragments and Fragmentary Plays 347Christopher Collard
Part V Form, Structure, and Performance 365
25 Form and Structure 367Markus Dubischar
26 The Theater of Euripides 390David Kawalko Roselli
27 The Euripidean Chorus 412Sheila Murnaghan
28 Euripides and the Sound of Music 428Armand D’Angour
Part VI Topics and Approaches 445
29 Euripides and his Intellectual Context 447Francis M. Dunn
30 Myth 468Matthew Wright
31 Euripides and Religion 483Judith Fletcher
32 Gender 500Melissa Mueller
Part VII Reception 515
33 Euripides, Aristophanes, and the Reception of “Sophistic” Styles 517Nancy Worman
34 Euripides in the Fourth Century BCE 533Anne Duncan
35 Euripides and Senecan Drama 546Christopher Star
36 All Aboard the Bacchae Bus: Reception of Euripides in the Twentieth and Twenty‐first Centuries 565Barbara Goff
Index 583