Euripides: Phoenissae (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, Series Number 29)

In nine paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer the most comprehensive selection of the Greek tragedies available in English. Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of over three million readers for personal libraries and individual study as well as for classroom use. This volume provides a thorough philological and dramatic commentary on Euripides' Phoenissae, the first detailed commentary in English since 1911. An introduction surveys the play, its possible date, features of the original production, the background of Theban myth, the general problem of interpolation, and the textual tradition. I have emphasized here the limitations inherent in the kinds of evidence or arguments adduced in supporting deletion of a passage as interpolated, not in order to claim that such arguments are useless, but merely to indicate that they may be less reliable than some of their proponents have believed.