| Author: | Euripides |
| Editor: | Luigi Battezzato |
| Origin: | UK |
| Scientific editor: | P.E. Easterling, Philip Hardie, Niel Hopkinson, Richard Hunter, E.J. Kenney, S.P. Oakley |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| ISBN: | 9780521138642 |
| Edition number: | 1st edition |
| Publication year: | 2018 |
| Dimensions: | 13.9x21.6 |
| Pages: | 296 |
| Location: | 11Ζ |
| Series: | Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics |
Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Key to metrical symbols
Introduction
1. Euripides: life and works
2. The date of the Hecuba
3. Production
3.1 Casting the play
3.2 Stage movements
4. Myth
5. Characters and reciprocity: charis, xenia, philia
6. Hecuba's revenge
7. Reception
8. Transmission of the text
9. Presentation of textual evidence in this edition
10. Metre and language
Symbols, sigla and abbreviations used in the edition of the Greek text
Hecuba
Commentary
Works cited
General index
Index of Greek words.