Minor Greek Tragedians, Volume 2: Fourth-Century and Hellenistic Poets: Fragments from the Tragedies with Selected Testimonia (Aris and Phillips Classical Texts)

This is the second volume of a collection which includes all the significant remains of tragedies produced by the contemporaries and successors of the three classic Greek tragedians (Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides). Greek texts and sources are accompanied by English translations, related historical information, detailed explanatory notes and bibliographies. Volume Two includes more than a dozen poets of the fourth and early third centuries (Astydamas, Carcinus, Chaeremon, Theodectas, Moschion and others), the Alexandrian Pleiad, Ezechiel's Exagôgê (a tragedy based on the biblical Exodus), and some anonymous material derived from ancient sources or rediscovered papyrus texts. Remnants of the satyr-plays of this period are included in a separate Aris & Phillips Classical Texts volume, Euripides Cyclops and Major Fragments of Greek Satyric Drama, edited by Patrick O'Sullivan and Christopher Collard (2013). Martin J. Cropp is Professor Emeritus of Greek and Roman Studies at the ... Publisher description Cover 1 Contents 4 Preface 6 Introduction 8 Texts, Translations and Notes 22 Dicaeogenes (TrGF 52) 24 Antiphon (TrGF 55) 32 Patrocles of Thurii (TrGF 58) 41 Astydamas I (TrGF 59) 44 Astydamas II (TrGF 60) 45 Sophocles II (TrGF 62) 75 Carcinus II (TrGF 70) 81 Chaeremon (TrGF 71) 112 Theodectas (TrGF 72) 151 Aphareus (TrGF 73) 190 Dionysius of Syracuse (TrGF 76) 193 Cleaenetus (TrGF 84) 221 Diogenes of Sinope (TrGF 88) 224 Appendix: Philiscus of Aegina (TrGF 89), Crates of Thebes (TrGF 90) 250 Sosiphanes I (TrGF 92) 253 Moschion (TrGF 97) 262 The Pleiad (TrGF 98–106) 291 Aeanti(a)des, Sosiphanes II, Dionysi(a)des, Euphronius (TrGF 102, 103, 105, 106) 295 Homer of Byzantium (TrGF 98) 297 Sositheus (TrGF 99) 302 Lycophron of Chalcis (TrGF 100) 309 Alexander of Aetolia (TrGF 101) 317 Philicus of Corcyra (TrGF 104) 321 Nicomachus of Alexandria Troas (TrGF 127) 327 Ezechiel (TrGF 128) 331 Unidentified poets 390 Adesp. F 649: The death of Hector 392 Adesp. F 644: Lament of Andromache 401 Adesp. F 664: Gyges 407 Hyginus, Fab. 100: Teuthras 415 Hyginus, Fab. 120–121: (TrGF Adesp. F 10c): Chryses 420 Hyginus, Fab. 122: (TrGF Adesp. F *3e): Aletes 425 Hyginus, Fab. 190: Theonoe 428 Abbreviations and references 432 Indexes (Poets, Titles, Sources, General) 462 Corrections to Volume One 476 The second of two volumes presenting all the remains of tragedies produced by contemporaries and successors of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Greek texts and sources are accompanied by English translations, historical background, detailed explanatory notes and bibliographies. Volume 2 includes amongst others Astydamas, Carcinus, Chaeremon, Theodectas, Moschion, the Alexandrian Pleiad and Ezechiel's Exagôgê