Euripides: Hecuba: Introduction, Text, and Commentary (Textbook Series (American Philological Association), No. 14.)

The first modern, full-length commentary of Hecuba suitable for classroom use, this edition also contains material directed to more advanced students and to scholars. It includes an introduction, appendix on lyric meters, bibliography, and index. Booknews A full-length Greek text and extensive commentary that Gregory hopes will encourage the study of the play in undergraduate Greek courses. She attends to the needs of students who have little experience translating Greek tragedy, but are interested in the dramatic language and conventions and in the dramatic and historical context. She also includes material for more advanced scholars, bracketed to warn others away from deep water. This volume is part of a series formerly distributed by Scholars Press (which is now defunct); the American Philological Association now distributes its own publications. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) "In the three great war plays contained in this volume Euripides subjects the sufferings of Troy's survivors to a harrowing examination. The horrific brutality which both women and children undergo evokes a response of unparalleled intensity in the playwright whom Aristotle called the most tragic of poets. Yet the new battle-ground of the aftermath of war is one in which the women of Troy evince an overwhelming greatness of spirit. We weep for the aged Hecuba in her name play and in the Trojan Women, yet we respond with an at times appalled admiration to her resilience amid unrelieved suffering. And in her name play Andromache, the slave-concubine of her husband's killer, endures her existence in the victor's country with a stoic nobility. Of their time yet timeless, these plays insist on the victory of the female spirit amid the horrors visited on them by gods and men during war."--BOOK JACKET.

This student's edition of Hecuba prepared by Justina Gregory offers the first modern, full-length commentary suitable for classroom use. It includes an introduction, appendix on lyric meters, bibliography, and index.