Eighteen of the ninety or so plays composed by Euripides between
455 and 406 BCE survive in a complete form and are included in the
first 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 of the fragments, concluded in this second volume,
offers the first complete English translation 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.
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