Euripidea : Collected Essays

James Diggle is one of the foremost authorities on Euripides of our time. This collection brings together in a convenient single volume 41 papers and reviews (including five papers not previously published) which offer a commentary on the text and interpretation of all the plays of Euripides, whose text Diggle has newly edited in a three volume Oxford Classical Text.

James Diggle is well known among classicists as one of the foremost Euripidean scholars of our time. His ground-breaking studies on the text of Euripides, culminating in his new edition of the complete plays in the Oxford Classical Texts series, have won him a wide reputation as one of the leading authorities on Euripides. This collection comprises forty one papers and reviews (including five papers not previously published) designed as a companion to the Oxford Text. The published papers and reviews have been lightly revised and updated and equipped with copious cross-references. There are full indexes. The collection not only offers a commentary on an extensive range of problematic passages in the plays; it also provides an up-to-date grammar of Euripidean usage - linguistic, stylistic, and metrical - and deals with many aspects of the manuscript tradition. It will be an indispensable handbook for all future serious students of Euripides.