Euripidea Tertia

by David Kovacs

Euripidea Tertia is a companion volume to the Loeb Classical Library edition of Euripides. It discusses places in the text primarily of the late plays where the editor's choice of variants or adoption of conjectures required some explanation and also places where the translation needed explaining. The plays covered are Iphigenia Taurica, Ion, Helen, Phoenissae, Orestes, Bacchae, Iphigenia Aulidensis , and Rhesus , with addenda on earlier plays. Reviewers of the earlier volumes Euripidea and Euripidea Altera have commented on the cogency and sensitivity of his textual arguments. Serious students of Euripides, tragedy, textual criticism, and Greek metre will all want to read this book.

196 pages, Hardcover

First published December 18, 2002

About the author

David Kovacs (Ph.D. Harvard, 1976) holds the Hugh H. Obear Professorship of Classics at the University of Virginia. He is an authority on the plays of Euripides and has edited and translated all of them for the Loeb Classical Library (Harvard Press, six volumes). His book-length contributions to the interpretation of Euripidean tragedy are The Andromache of Euripides: An Interpretation (Scholars Press: Chico, CA, 1980) and The Heroic Muse: Studies in the Hippolytus and Hecuba of Euripides (Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore, 1987).