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Euripides: Iphigenia at Aulis - Volume 1: Introduction, Text and Translation; Volume 2: Commentary and Indexes (Paperback)
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Euripides: Iphigenia at Aulis - Volume 1: Introduction, Text and Translation; Volume 2: Commentary and Indexes (Paperback)
Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts
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'Euripides: Iphigenia at Aulis' comprises two volumes (Volume 1:
Introduction, Text and Translation; Volume 2: Commentary and
Indexes), which are sold together as a set. This is the first
English edition with complete commentary of the play since 1891,
and there has been only one other substantial such work in any
language (W. Stockert, in German, Vienna 1992). The reasons for
this remarkable lack lie chiefly in the unusual circumstances of
the play's composition and early history. Euripides died before
completing it and it was prepared for its first performance in or
about 405 BC by his son or nephew. In the century and more after
that other hands intervened, the last in very late antiquity. Since
the 18th Century scholars have disagreed greatly in identifying how
much of the surviving text may stem from Euripides' own hand or his
original conception, and how much may be 'inauthentic'; whatever
the facts, the Iphigenia has received frequent and very successful
production in recent years. The play's quality was rewarded at its
first performance, with first prize in a dramatic competition.
Scholars have written a stream of mostly brief general
appreciations; but this edition with translation and commentary
wishes to recognise that the play for the most part shows Euripides
at his finest. It is therefore deliberately wide in its aim, at
readers who have no Greek at all, at students in schools and
universities who have some Greek, and at their teachers and
professional scholars; its Introduction and the most important
parts of the commentary are accessible to all, while notes
particularly on the Greek of the poetic text and its problems are
kept separate.
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