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EURIPIDEA ALTERA

MNEMOSYNE BIBLIOTHECA CLASSICA BATAVA COLLEGERUNT J.M. BREMER • L. F. JANSSEN • H. PINKSTER H.W. PLEKET • C.J. RUijGH · P.H. SCHRIJVERS BIBLIOTHECAE FASCICULOS EDENDOS CURAVIT C.J. RUijGH, KLASSIEK SEMINARIUM, OUDE TURFMARKT 129, AMSTERDAM

SUPPLEMENTUM CENTESIMUM SEXAGESIMUM PRIMUM

DAVID KOVACS

EURIPIDEA ALTERA

EURIPIDEA ALTERA BY

DAVID KOVACS

E.J. BRILL LEIDEN · NEW YORK · KOLN 1996

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kovacs, David. Euripidea altera / by David Kovacs. p. cm. - (Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, ISSN 0 169-8958 ; 161) English and Greek. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN 9004106243 (alk. paper) I. Euripides-Criticism and interpretation. 2. Greek drama (fragedy)-History and criticism. 3. Mythology, Greek, in I. Title. II. Series. literature. 1996 PA3978.K64 882'.0l---dc 20

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Die Deutsche Bibliotbek - CIP-Einheitsaufnahme (Mnemosyne / Supplementum] Mnemosyne : bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Leiden; New York; Koln : Brill. Friiher Schriftenreihe Reihe Supplementum zu: Mnemosyne

161. Euripidea altera. - 1996 Euripidea altera / by David Kovacs. - Leiden ; New York ; Koln : Brill, 1996 (Mnemosyne : Supplementum ; 161) ISBN 90--04-10624-3

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CONTENTS Preface

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Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

Heraclidae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Hippolytus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 28 Andromache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Hecuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Supplices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... 70 Electra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Heracles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126 Troades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149 Addendum: Medea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Indices Index of Subjects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157 Index of Greek Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157 Index of Passages Cited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

PREFACE This volume, like its predecessor, Euripidea (Leiden, 1994), 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 Loeb volumes two and three (Heraclidae, Hippolytus, Andromache, Hecuba, Supp/ices, Electra, Heracles, and Troades). A projected Euripidea Tertia will cover the remainder of the plays. It may be thought late in the day to be producing volumes of adversaria critica on the plays of Euripides. But in actuality there is still a great deal to be done on the text. Problems, both previously recognized and new, are to be found, if not on every page, yet thick and fast enough to make a small book of the gleanings from eight plays. As I did in the earlier volume, I have intercalated references to earlier discussions of mine. A reader of Euripidea remarked that printing textual discussions without a preceding lemma makes a book that is not very userfriendly. I had to agree. Accordingly I print the text of almost everything I discuss. The most convenient point of departure was Diggle's Oxford text, and unless I note otherwise, the text at the head of a discussion, along with any apparatus, is his. 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 two years of half-time research made possible by a grant from the Division of Research of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The University of Virginia awarded me a summer grant that allowed me several uninterrupted months of