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EURIPIDEA TERTIA

MNEMOSYNE BIBLIOTHECA CLASSICA BATAVA COLLEGERUNT H. PINKSTER ·H. S. VERSNEL D.M. SCHENKEVELD ·PH. SCHRIJVERS S.R. SLINGS BIBLIOTHECAE FASCICULOS EDENDOS CURAVIT H. PINKSTER , KLASSIEK SEMINARIUM, OUDE TURFMARKT 129, AMSTERDAM

SUPPLEMENTUM DUCENTESIMUM QUADRAGESIMUM DAVID KOVACS

EURIPIDEA TERTIA

EURIPIDEA TERTIA BY

DAVID KOVACS

BRILL

LEIDEN ·BOSTON 2003

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Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Einheitsaufnalune [Mnemosyne I Supplementum] Mnemosyne : bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill Frilher Schriftenreihe Teilw. u.d.T.: Mnemosyne I Supplements Reihe Supplementum zu: Mnemosyne 240. Kovacs, D : Euripidea tertia Euripidea tertia I David Kovacs - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003 (Mnemosyne : Supplementum ; 240) ISBN 90-04-12977-4

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CONTENTS Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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lphigenia Taurica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Ion

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Helena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Phoenissae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Orestes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Bacchae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Iphigenia Aulidensis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Rhesus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Addendum: Cyclops

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Addendum: Alcestis

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Addendum: Medea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Addendum: Heraclidae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Addendum: Hecuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 Addendum: Supplices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Addendum: Heracles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Addendum: Troades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Indices Index of Subjects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 Index of Greek Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 Index of Passages Cited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

PREFACE This volume, like its two predecessors, Euripidea (Leiden, 1994) and Euripidea Altera (Leiden, 1996), is a companion to the Loeb Euripides, explaining some of the readings I adopt on the left-hand pages and some of my translations on the right-hand ones. The present volume covers the end of Loeb volume four and the whole of volumes five and six (lphigenia in Tauris, Ion, Helen, Phoenissae, Orestes, Bacchae, lphigenia Aulidensis, Rhesus). As I did in the earlier volumes, I have intercalated references to earlier discussions of mine. Unless otherwise noted, the lemmata at the head of the discussions and any apparatus is Diggle's, whose text makes the most convenient point of departure. I have incorporated his later corrections (see his Euripidea 518-23) into the apparatus. There are, as before, debts to acknowledge. Parts of this book were written during a year of full-time research in 1996-7 made possible by a grant from the Division of Research of the National Endowment for the Humanities. I am grateful to the Endowment for supporting this unfashionable and un-trendy kind of research. I am also grateful to the Master and Fellows of Balliol College, Oxford for electing me to a Visiting Fellowship for that year, which allowed me to spend twelve months in close proximity to several people who have edited or otherwise explicated tragedy with credit. I am particularly grateful to Jasper Griffin, Martin West, Charles Willink, James Diggle, and Chris Pelling for viva voce discussion or useful written comment. Martin West invited me to join him in teaching a seminar on lphigenia Aulidensis in Hilary Term of 1997, and I thank him and the other participants for lively discussion of the many problems of that play. A second period of work on the text was 2000-1, when I received a semester's leave from the University of Virginia and was elected to a Visiting Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge. I am immensely grateful to the Master and Fellows for their kindness and generosity. I benefited enormously from discussions with Roger Dawe, James

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Diggle, Eric Handley, and Charles Willink. For help on particular chapters at a still later stage I am grateful to John Gibert and Hugh Lloyd-Jones. Naturally, none of those named are implicated in my errors. Charlottesville, Virginia

ABBREVIATIONS Ancient authors and works are abbreviated as in LSJ, periodicals as in L'annee philologique, and metrical symbols as in M. L. West, Greek Metre (Oxford, 1982). Denniston, GP

J. D. Denniston, The Greek Particles2 (Oxford, 1959)

Diggle, Studies

J. Diggle, Studies on the Text of Euripides (Oxford, 1981)

Diggle, Euripidea J. Diggle, Euripidea: Collected Essays (Oxford, 1994) Erbse, Studien

H. Erbse, Studien zum Prolog der euripideischen Tragodie (Berlin and New York, 1984)

Euripidea

D. Kovacs, Euripidea (Leiden, 1994)

Euripidea Altera

D. Kovacs, Euripidea Altera (Leiden, 1996)

Jackson,MS

J. Jackson, Marginalia Scaenica (Oxford, 1955)

K.-G.

R. Kuhner and B. Gerth, Ausfiihrliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (Hannover and Leipzig, 1898)

LSJ

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, , A Greek-English Lexicon, 9th ed. rev. by H. S. Jones and R. McKenzie (Oxford, 1940 et seq.)

Page, GLP

D. L. Page, Select Papyri III: Literary Papyri, Poetry (London and Cambridge, Mass., 1941)

Page, lA

D. L. Page, Actors' Interpolations in Greek Tragedy (Oxford, 1934)

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Smyth

H. W. Smyth, Greek Grammar, revised by G. M. Messing (Cambridge, Mass., 1956)

Stinton, CPGT

T. C. W. Stinton, Collected Papers on Greek Tragedy (Oxford, 1990)

Wilamowitz, KS

U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Kleine Schriften (Berlin, 1962)

IPHIGENIA IN TAURISI

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