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IV. Euripides

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In recent years, as earlier, papyri have given us more information about Euripides than about either of the other two tragic poets. A long collection of hypotheseis of plays, arranged in alphabetical order, tells us less than we might have hoped because it is in such a bad state, but adds a lot of useful detail. Another collection was evidently arranged by stories so that a summary of the Peliades (which tells a little more about Euripides’ first play) is followed by a summary of the Medea and that presumably by a summary of the Aigeus. It is interesting to know that mythographers had both sorts of collection to draw on.

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New Surveys in the Classics , Volume 5: Greek Tragedy , 1971 , pp. 28 - 39
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1971

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page no 28 note 1 P. Oxy. 2455 (including the satyr-plays, Skeiron, Syleus, and Sisyphos, but little can be made of them). To these is to be added a fragmentary hypothesis of the late Auge, Koenen, L., Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik iv (1969), 7 Google Scholar.

page no 28 note 2 Papathomopoulos, M., Recherches de Papyrologie iii (1964), 40 Google Scholar.

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page no 28 note 4 P. Oxy. 2458. On the date see Musso, O., SIFC xxxvi (1964), 80 ffGoogle Scholar. Note above, p. 19, for the possibility that we have some of the Theseus. P. Oxy. 2461 gives some of another early play, the Cretans.

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page no 31 note 1 Cf. above, p. 20.

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page no 38 note 1 Cf. above, p. 27. I do not mean to imply that Hera is anything other than the traditional goddess of mythology.

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