Euripidea Altera

174 Pages·1996·2.4 MB·English

by  David Kovacs

EURIPIDEA ALTERA
MNEMOSYNE
BIBLIOTHECA CLASSICA BATAVA
COLLEGERUNT
J.M. BREMER • L. F. JANSSEN • H. PINKSTER
H.W. PLEKET • C.J. RUijGH · P.H. SCHRIJVERS
BIBLIOTHECAE FASCICULOS EDENDOS CURAVIT
C.J. RUijGH, KLASSIEK SEMINARIUM, OUDE TURFMARKT 129, AMSTERDAM
SUPPLEMENTUM CENTESIMUM SEXAGESIMUM PRIMUM
DAVID KOVACS
EURIPIDEA AL TERA
EURIPIDEA ALTERA
BY
DAVID KOVACS
E.J. BRILL
LEIDEN · NEW YORK · KOLN
1996
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Euripidea altera / by David Kovacs.
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Supplementum, ISSN 0 169-8958 ; 161)
English and Greek.
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I. Euripides-Criticism and interpretation. 2. Greek drama
(fragedy)-History and criticism. 3. Mythology, Greek, in
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CONTENTS
Prefa ce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vn
Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Heraclidae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Hippolytus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 28
Andromache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........ 40
Hecuba ................................... 56
Supplices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... 70
Electra .................................... 95
Heracles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126
Troades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149
Addendum: Medea ............................ 152
Indices
Index of Subjects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157
Index of Greek Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157
Index of Passages Cited ....................... 158

PREFACE
This volume, like its predecessor, Euripidea (Leiden, 1994), is a
companion to the Loeb Euripides, explaining some of the readings I
adopt on the left-hand pages and some of my translations on the
right-hand ones. The present volume covers Loeb volumes two and
three (Heraclidae, Hippolytus, Andromache, Hecuba, Supp/ices,
Electra, Heracles, and Troades). A projected Euripidea Tertia will
cover the remainder of the plays.
It may be thought late in the day to be producing volumes of
adversaria critica on the plays of Euripides. But in actuality there is
still a great deal to be done on the text. Problems, both previously re
cognized and new, are to be found, if not on every page, yet thick
and fast enough to make a small book of the gleanings from eight
plays. As I did in the earlier volume, I have intercalated references to
earlier discussions of mine.
A reader of Euripidea remarked that printing textual discussions
without a preceding lemma makes a book that is not very user
friendly. I had to agree. Accordingly I print the text of almost every
thing I discuss. The most convenient point of departure was Diggle's
Oxford text, and unless I note otherwise, the text at the head of a dis
cussion, along with any apparatus, is his. I have incorporated his later
corrections (see his Euripidea 518-23) into the apparatus.
There are, as before, debts to acknowledge. Parts of this book
were written during two years of half-time research made possible by
a grant from the Division of Research of the National Endowment for
the Humanities. The University of Virginia awarded me a summer
grant that allowed me several uninterrupted months of <JXOA~. I am
also grateful to the Warden and Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford
for electing me to a Visiting Fellowship in 1994 that allowed me to
spend a term in close proximity to several people who have edited or
otherwise explicated tragedy with credit. I am particularly grateful to
Martin West, Charles Willink, James Diggle, and Chris Pelling for
viva voce discussion or useful written comment. On this side of the
water, I have discussed problems in person or by letter with Justina
Gregory, Jon Mikalson, Mary Lefkowitz, and Hugh Lloyd-Jones.
Thanks to all for stimulation and correction.
viii
My biggest debt, however, is to my wife, Judith, for her patience
and supportiveness during this book's gestation. In her own work she
explicates the Bible and the Fathers, but from me she has learned at
first hand the truth of Eccles. 12: 12, as I have from her the truth of
Prov. 31:10-12.
Charlottesville, Virginia
ABBREVIATIONS
Ancient authors and works are abbreviated as in LSJ, periodicals as
in L'annee philologique, and metrical symbols as in M. L. West,
Greek Metre (Oxford, 1982).
Andromache P. D. Kovacs, The Andromache of Euripides: an
Interpretation (Chico, 1980)
BfC S Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies
CJ Classical Journal
CP Classical Philology
CQ Classical Quarterly
EMC Echos du Monde Classique
Denniston, GP J. D. Denniston, The Greek Particles2 (Oxford,
1959)
Diggle, Studies J. Diggle, Studies on the Text of Euripides (Ox
ford, 1981)
Diggle, Euripidea J. Diggle, Euripidea: Collected Essays (Oxford,
1994)
Euripidea D. Kovacs, Euripidea (Leiden, 1994)
GRBS Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies
Heroic Muse D. Kovacs, The Heroic Muse: Studies in the Hip
polytus and Hecuba of Euripides (Baltimore and
London, 1987)
Jackson,MS J. Jackson, Marginalia Scaenica (Oxford, 1955)
X
K.-G. R. Kilhner and B. Gerth, Ausfuhrliche Gram
matik der griechischen Sprache (Hannover and
Leipzig, 1898)
LSJ H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, , A Greek-English Lexi
con, 9th ed. rev. by H. S. Jones and R. McKenzie
(Oxford, 1940 et seq.)
RhM Rheinisches Museum
Smyth H. W. Smyth, Greek Grammar, revised by G. M.
Messing (Cambridge, Mass., 1956)
Stinton, CPGT T. C. W. Stinton, Collected Papers on Greek Tra
gedy (Oxford, 1990)
TAPA Transactions of the American Philological Asso
ciation
Wilamowitz, KS U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Kleine Schrif
ten (Berlin, 1962)