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Author:   David Kovacs (Hugh H. Obear Professor of Classics (Emeritus), Hugh H. Obear Professor of Classics (Emeritus), University of Virginia)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 22.10cm
Weight:   0.592kg
ISBN:  

9780199296156

ISBN 10:   0199296154
Pages:   386
Publication Date:   04 December 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Frontmatter Abbreviations INTRODUCTION 1. Date, festival, and possible connections with contemporary events 2. Staging 3. Trilogy 4. Toward an interpretation of Troades: themes and unity 5. Manuscripts and papyri; editorial principles 6. Reception of Troades and Euripides TEXT AND CRITICAL APPARATUS Sigla Hypothesis The characters Troades COMMENTARY Metrical symbols The Hypothesis Prologos (1-152) Parodos (153-229) First episode (230-510) First stasimon (511-67) Second episode (568-798) Second stasimon (799-859) Third episode (860-1059) Third stasimon (1060-1117) Exodos (1118-1332) Appendix A: 95-7 Appendix B: 638 Appendix C: 827-30 Endmatter Bibliography Commentaries Editions of Troades cited Works cited by author name and date Indices to the commentary and introduction I. Greek II. English III. Index locorum

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The Commentary matches the thoroughness of the Introduction and the examination of textual problems; it is followed by three Appendices, a Bibliography of sensible length, and Indices. This is an edition of exceptional quality, almost certain ... to be the subject of, for example, graduate seminars. I cannot recommend it too highly. * Colin Leach, Classics for all *

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After receiving his doctorate from Harvard University in 1976, David Kovacs joined the classics faculty at the University of Virginia, where he taught Greek and Latin language and literature for forty years. His principal body of work is the six-volume Loeb edition of Euripides' plays and three companion volumes on the text. In matters of interpretation he claims credit, along with a number of other scholars, for a new view of Euripides, which takes its point of departure not from the biographical tradition, parts of which view him as an advanced thinker who is ill-at-ease with the gods, but from the plays themselves: these show Euripides' first-order engagement with such great tragic themes as the fragility of mortal life in the face of the gods.

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