A Commentary on the Rhesus Attributed to Euripides

Author:   Vayos Liapis (Associate Professor, The Open University of Cyprus.)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199591688


Pages:   382
Publication Date:   01 December 2011
Format:   Hardback
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A Commentary on the Rhesus Attributed to Euripides


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Author:   Vayos Liapis (Associate Professor, The Open University of Cyprus.)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.830kg
ISBN:  

9780199591688


ISBN 10:   0199591687
Pages:   382
Publication Date:   01 December 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Abbreviations Metrical Conspectus Introduction I: The Mythical Background II: Dramaturgy and Stagecraft III: Character-Portrayal IV: Language and Style; Metre V: The Authenticity Question VI: The Text Rhesus Attributed to Euripides Commentary Bibliography Index Nominum et Rerum Potiorum Index Locorum

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Students of fourth-century drama should be profoundly grateful to Liapis for providing, for the first time, a truly scholarly tool with which to begin making sense of the direction tragedy took after the death of Euripides. David Sansone, Bryn Mawr Classical Review [T]he most thorough and detailed analysis of its kind ... The commentary accomplishes what it wants, and it does so on a very high scholarly level Gunther Martin, Exemplaria Classica


Students of fourth-century drama should be profoundly grateful to Liapis for providing, for the first time, a truly scholarly tool with which to begin making sense of the direction tragedy took after the death of Euripides. David Sansone, Bryn Mawr Classical Review


Author Information

Vayos Liapis obtained his PhD from the University of Glasgow in 1997. He taught at the University of Cyprus (2000-2003) and the Université de Montréal (2003-2009), and is currently Associate Professor at the Open University of Cyprus. His previous books include a commentary on the Sententiae Menandri (Menandrou Gnomai Monostichoi, Athens, 2002), and a monograph on the unknowability of the gods in early Greek literature and thought, Agnostos Theos (Athens, 2003). He has also co-edited with Douglas Cairns Dionysalexandros: Essays on Aeschylus and His Fellow Tragedians in Honour of Alexander F. Garvie (Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2006). He has also published a variety articles on subjects ranging from archaic lyric to classical and postclassical tragedy to Hellenistic poetry and Greek religion.

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