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A COMPANION TO EURIPIDESA COMPANION TO EURIPIDESEuripides has enjoyed a resurgence of interest as a result of many recent important publications, attesting to the poet's enduring relevance to the modern world. A Companion to Euripides is the product of this contemporary work, with many essays drawing on the latest texts, commentaries, and scholarship on the man and his oeuvre.Divided into seven sections, the companion begins with a general discussion of Euripidean drama. The following sections contain essays on Euripidean biography and the manuscript tradition, and individual essays on each play, organized in chronological order. Chapters offer summaries of important scholarship and methodologies, synopses of individual plays and the myths from which they borrow their plots, and conclude with suggestions for additional reading. The final two sections deal with topics central to Euripidean scholarship, such as religion, myth, and gender, and the reception of Euripides from the 4th century BCE to the modern world.A Companion to Euripides brings together a variety of leading Euripides scholars from a wide range of perspectives. As a result, specific issues and themes emerge across the chapters as central to our understanding of the poet and his meaning for our time. Contributions are original and provocative interpretations of Euripides' plays, which forge important paths of inquiry for future scholarship.

A Companion to Euripides

Notes on Contributors viiiAcknowledgments xiiiList of Abbreviations xiv1 Introduction 1Laura K. McClurePart I Text, Author, and Tradition 92 Text and Transmission 11Donald J. Mastronarde3 The Euripidean Biography 27Ruth Scodel4 Euripides and the Development of Greek Tragedy 42John GibertPart II Early Plays (438-416 BCE) 595 Alcestis 61Eirene Visvardi6 Medea 80Laura Swift7 Children of Heracles 92Owen E. Goslin8 Hippolytus 107Mary Ebbott9 Andromache 122Ian C. Storey10 Hecuba 136Daniel Turkeltaub11 Suppliant Women 152Laura K. McClure12 Electra 166Hanna M. Roisman13 Heracles: The Perfect Piece 182C.W. MarshallPart III Later Plays (After 416 BCE) 19714 Trojan Women 199Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz15 Iphigenia in Tauris 214Jennifer Clarke Kosak16 Ion: An Edible Fairy Tale? 228Emma M. Griffiths17 Significant Inconsistencies in Euripides' Helen 243Deborah Boedeker18 Phoenician Women 258Anna A. Lamari19 Orestes 270Elton Barker20 Iphigenia at Aulis 284Isabelle Torrance21 Bacchae 298Laurialan ReitzammerPart IV Satyr, Spurious, and Fragmentary Plays 31322 Cyclops 315Patrick O'Sullivan23 Rhesus 334Vayos Liapis24 Fragments and Fragmentary Plays 347Christopher CollardPart V Form, Structure, and Performance 36525 Form and Structure 367Markus Dubischar26 The Theater of Euripides 390David Kawalko Roselli27 The Euripidean Chorus 412Sheila Murnaghan28 Euripides and the Sound of Music 428Armand D'AngourPart VI Topics and Approaches 44529 Euripides and his Intellectual Context 447Francis M. Dunn30 Myth 468Matthew Wright31 Euripides and Religion 483Judith Fletcher32 Gender 500Melissa MuellerPart VII Reception 51533 Euripides, Aristophanes, and the Reception of "Sophistic" Styles 517Nancy Worman34 Euripides in the Fourth Century BCE 533Anne Duncan35 Euripides and Senecan Drama 546Christopher Star36 All Aboard the Bacchae Bus: Reception of Euripides in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries 565Barbara GoffIndex 583