Brill's Companion to Euripides (2 Vols) (Brill's Companions to Classical Studies)

"Brill's Companion to Euripides offers 49 specially commissioned essays from leading international scholars which give critical examinations of the progress and direction of numerous wide-ranging debates about various aspects of Euripidean drama. Each chapter, as well as covering a wide diversity of thematic angles, provides readers with an authoritative and state-of-the-art survey of current thinking and research in a particular subject area. Recent advances in scholarship have raised new questions about Euripides and Attic drama, and have overturned some long-standing assumptions and canons. Besides presenting a comprehensive and authoritative guide to understanding Euripides and his masterworks, this companion provides scholars and students with compelling fresh perspectives upon a broad range of issues in the rapidly evolving field of Euripidean studies. Contributors are: James Barrett, Luigi Battezzato, Joshua Billings, Claude Calame, D.M. Carter, John Davidson, Markus Dubischar, Francis Dunn, P.J. Finglass, Marco Fantuzzi, Helene P. Foley, Moira Fradinger, John Gibert, Justina Gregory, Emma Griffiths, Mary Louise Hart, Daniel I. Iakov, Ioanna Karamanou, Adrian Kelly, Poulheria Kyriakou, Anna A. Lamari, Michael Lloyd, Andreas Markantonatos, Sarah Miles, Sophie Mills, James Morwood, Melissa Mueller, Dana L. Munteanu, Patrick O'Sullivan, Joe P. Poe, Pietro Pucci, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Rush Rehm, Mark Ringer, Hanna M. Roisman, Elizabeth W. Scharffenberger, Ruth Scodel, Camille Semenzato, Carl Shaw, Niall W. Slater, Mae J. Smethurst, Mary Stieber, Laura Swift, William Blake Tyrrell, Angeliki Tzanetou, Eirene Visvardi, Paul Woodruff, Nancy Worman, and Florence Yoon"-- Proporcionado por el editor. ‎Contents 7 ‎Preface 13 ‎Abbreviations 15 ‎Figures 16 ‎Notes on Contributors 18 ‎Introduction (Markantonatos) 31 ‎Part 1. The Poet and His Work 39 ‎Chapter 1. Life of Euripides (Tyrrell) 41 ‎Chapter 2. The Textual Tradition of Euripides’ Dramas (Finglass) 59 ‎Chapter 3. Alcestis (Iakov) 79 ‎Chapter 4. Medea (Kelly) 99 ‎Chapter 5. Children of Heracles (Carter) 126 ‎Chapter 6. Hippolytus (Mueller) 151 ‎Chapter 7. Andromache (Scharffenberger) 169 ‎Chapter 8. Hecuba (Tzanetou) 188 ‎Chapter 9. Suppliant Women (Morwood) 212 ‎Chapter 10. Heracles (Dubischar) 233 ‎Chapter 11. Ion (Gibert) 263 ‎Chapter 12. Trojan Women (Poe) 285 ‎Chapter 13. Electra (Barrett) 308 ‎Chapter 14. Iphigenia among the Taurians (Rabinowitz) 329 ‎Chapter 15. Helen (Griffiths) 350 ‎Chapter 16. Phoenician Women (Swift) 373 ‎Chapter 17. Orestes (Ringer) 390 ‎Chapter 18. Bacchae (Billings) 406 ‎Chapter 19. Iphigenia at Aulis (Gregory) 425 ‎Chapter 20. Rhesus (Fantuzzi) 445 ‎Chapter 21. Fragments and Lost Tragedies: Alexandros and Later Euripidean Tragedy (Karamanou) 470 ‎Chapter 22. Euripides and Satyr Drama (Shaw) 495 ‎Part 2. Euripidean Intertextuality: Epic Poetry and Attic Tragedy 523 ‎Chapter 23. Euripides: Epic Sources and Models (Davidson) 525 ‎Chapter 24. Intertextuality in Euripidean Tragedy (Pucci) 549 ‎Part 3. Euripides the Innovator: Language, Rhetoric, Realism, and Emotion 573 ‎Chapter 25. The Language of Euripides (Battezzato) 575 ‎Chapter 26. Rhetoric in Euripides (O’Sullivan) 601 ‎Chapter 27. Realism in Euripides (Lloyd) 635 ‎Chapter 28. Emotion in Euripides (Visvardi) 657 ‎Contents 695 ‎Abbreviations 701 ‎Figures 702 ‎Part 4. Image, Chorus, and Performance 705 ‎Chapter 29. Text and Image: Euripides and Iconography (Hart) 707 ‎Chapter 30. Euripides and Art, Artifacts, and the Technical Vocabulary of Craft (Stieber) 742 ‎Chapter 31. Euripidean Stagecraft (Miles) 770 ‎Chapter 32. Euripides and the Aesthetics of Embodiment (Worman) 793 ‎Chapter 33. The Chorus in Euripides (Calame) 819 ‎Chapter 34. Ancient Reperformances of Euripides (Lamari) 841 ‎Part 5. Religion, History, and Politics 863 ‎Chapter 35. Ritual in Euripides (Rehm) 865 ‎Chapter 36. Euripides and Mystical Religion (Semenzato) 885 ‎Chapter 37. Euripides and Athenian Imperialism (Mills) 907 ‎Part 6. Euripidean Anthropology: Status, Function, and Gender 931 ‎Chapter 38. Women’s Voices in Euripides (Munteanu) 933 ‎Chapter 39. Minor Characters in Euripides (Kyriakou) 955 ‎Chapter 40. Euripides’ Heralds (Yoon) 974 ‎Part 7. Euripides: Ancient Culture, Philosophy, and Comedy 989 ‎Chapter 41. Affective Attachments in Some Late Tragedies of Euripides (Dunn) 991 ‎Chapter 42. Euripides and Ancient Greek Philosophy (Scodel) 1010 ‎Chapter 43. Aristophanes’ Reception of Euripides (Slater) 1032 ‎Part 8. Euripides Made New: Modern Reception, Translation, and Performance 1067 ‎Introductory Note (Foley) 1069 ‎Chapter 44. Euripides’ Electra—Four Cases of Classical Reception (Roisman) 1071 ‎Chapter 45. Euripides in Translation (Woodruff) 1090 ‎Chapter 46. Euripides on the Modern Anglo-American Stage (Foley) 1109 ‎Chapter 47. Euripides Performed in Japan (Smethurst) 1132 ‎Chapter 48. Medea in Argentina (Fradinger) 1153 ‎Index of Subjects 1179 ‎Index of Principal Euripidean Passages 1191 "Brill's Companion to Euripides offers 49 specially commissioned essays from leading international scholars which give critical examinations of the progress and direction of numerous wide-ranging debates about various aspects of Euripidean drama. Each chapter, as well as covering a wide diversity of thematic angles, provides readers with an authoritative and state-of-the-art survey of current thinking and research in a particular subject area. Recent advances in scholarship have raised new questions about Euripides and Attic drama, and have overturned some long-standing assumptions and canons. Besides presenting a comprehensive and authoritative guide to understanding Euripides and his masterworks, this companion provides scholars and students with compelling fresh perspectives upon a broad range of issues in the rapidly evolving field of Euripidean studies. Contributors are: James Barrett, Luigi Battezzato, Joshua Billings, Claude Calame, D.M. Carter, John Davidson, Markus Dubischar, Francis Dunn, P.J. Finglass, Marco Fantuzzi, Helene P. Foley, Moira Fradinger, John Gibert, Justina Gregory, Emma Griffiths, Mary Louise Hart, Daniel I. Iakov, Ioanna Karamanou, Adrian Kelly, Poulheria Kyriakou, Anna A. Lamari, Michael Lloyd, Andreas Markantonatos, Sarah Miles, Sophie Mills, James Morwood, Melissa Mueller, Dana L. Munteanu, Patrick O'Sullivan, Joe P. Poe, Pietro Pucci, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Rush Rehm, Mark Ringer, Hanna M. Roisman, Elizabeth W. Scharffenberger, Ruth Scodel, Camille Semenzato, Carl Shaw, Niall W. Slater, Mae J. Smethurst, Mary Stieber, Laura Swift, William Blake Tyrrell, Angeliki Tzanetou, Eirene Visvardi, Paul Woodruff, Nancy Worman, and Florence Yoon"-- Provided by publisher Brillђ́ةs Companion to Euripides offers 49 specially commissioned essays from leading international scholars which give critical examinations of the progress and direction of numerous wide-ranging debates about various aspects of Euripidean drama. Each chapter, as well as covering a wide diversity of thematic angles, provides readers with an authoritative and state-of-the-art survey of current thinking and research in a particular subject area. Recent advances in scholarship have raised new questions about Euripides and Attic drama, and have overturned some long-standing assumptions and canons. Besides presenting a comprehensive and authoritative guide to understanding Euripides and his masterworks, this companion provides scholars and students with compelling fresh perspectives upon a broad range of issues in the rapidly evolving field of Euripidean studies