Companion to Euripides

Laura K. McClure is Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her books include Spoken Like a Woman: Speech and Genar in Athenian Drama (1999 and Courteøana at Table: Genar and Greek Literary Culture in Athenaeus (2003). She has edited volumes on women and gender in the classical world and published articles on Athenian drama.

"This Companion highlights the performative and contextual aspects of old plays, making experienced researchers look afresh to them and presenting itself as a great introduction for students and young scholars." Sofia Frade, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, Centro de Estudos Clássicos, Cadmo – Revista de História Antiga, Cadmo 27

• Notes on Contributors viiiAcknowledgments xiiiList of Abbreviations xiv1 Introduction 1Laura K. McClurePart I Text, Author, and Tradition 92 Text and Transmission 11Donald J. Mastronarde3 The Euripidean Biography 27Ruth Scodel4 Euripides and the Development of Greek Tragedy 42John GibertPart II Early Plays (438–416 BCE) 595 Alcestis 61Eirene Visvardi6 Medea 80Laura Swift7 Children of Heracles 92Owen E. Goslin8 Hippolytus 107Mary Ebbott9 Andromache 122Ian C. Storey10 Hecuba 136Daniel Turkeltaub11 Suppliant Women 152Laura K. McClure12 Electra 166Hanna M. Roisman13 Heracles: The Perfect Piece 182C.W. MarshallPart III Later Plays (After 416 BCE) 19714 Trojan Women 199Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz15 Iphigenia in Tauris 214Jennifer Clarke Kosak16 Ion: An Edible Fairy Tale? 228Emma M. Griffiths17 Significant Inconsistencies in Euripides’ Helen 243Deborah Boedeker18 Phoenician Women 258Anna A. Lamari19 Orestes 270Elton Barker20 Iphigenia at Aulis 284Isabelle Torrance21 Bacchae 298Laurialan ReitzammerPart IV Satyr, Spurious, and Fragmentary Plays 31322 Cyclops 315Patrick O’Sullivan23 Rhesus 334Vayos Liapis24 Fragments and Fragmentary Plays 347Christopher CollardPart V Form, Structure, and Performance 36525 Form and Structure 367Markus Dubischar26 The Theater of Euripides 390David Kawalko Roselli27 The Euripidean Chorus 412Sheila Murnaghan28 Euripides and the Sound of Music 428Armand D’AngourPart VI Topics and Approaches 44529 Euripides and his Intellectual Context 447Francis M. Dunn30 Myth 468Matthew Wright31 Euripides and Religion 483Judith Fletcher32 Gender 500Melissa MuellerPart VII Reception 51533 Euripides, Aristophanes, and the Reception of “Sophistic” Styles 517Nancy Worman34 Euripides in the Fourth Century BCE 533Anne Duncan35 Euripides and Senecan Drama 546Christopher Star36 All Aboard the Bacchae Bus: Reception of Euripides in the Twentieth and Twenty‐first Centuries 565Barbara GoffIndex 583