Table Of ContentTHE PLAYS OF EURIPIDES
SELECTED FRAGMENTARY PLAYS: Il
General Editor
Professor Christopher Collard
Aris ἃ PHILLIPS CLASSICAL TEXTS
EURIPIDES
Selected Fragmentary Plays
with Introductions, Translations and Commentaries
by
C. Collard, M. J. Cropp and J. Gibert
Volume II
Philoctetes, Alexandros (with Palamedes and Sisyphus),
Oedipus, Andromeda, Hypsipyle, Antiope, Archelaus
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME TWO
General Editor's Foreword viii
Preface
Form and Content of this Edition
Bibliography and Abbreviations
Philoctetes (431 B.C.) (C.C.)
Alexandros (415 B.C.) (M.C.)
Appendix 1: Ennius, Alexander (M.C.)
Appendix 2: Palamedes (C.C.)
Appendix 3: Sisyphus (C.C.)
Oedipus (after 415 B.C.?) (C.C.) 105
Andromeda (412 B.C.) (J.G.) 133
Hypsipyle (41 1-407 B.C.) (M.C.) 169
Antiope (411-407 B.C.) (C.C.) 259
Appendix: Pacuvius, Antiopa (C.C.) 326
Archelaus (413-406 B.C.) (J.G.) 330
Addenda and Corrigenda to Volume I 363
Index to Volumes I and II 372
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GENERAL EDITOR'S FOREWORD
In the volumes of this Series which offer the complete plays I have begun my
Foreword with the argument that Euripides’ remarkable variety of subjects,
ideas and methods challenges each new generation of readers, and audiences, to
a fresh appraisal. The complete plays, eighteen in number, are challenge enough,
but there are nearly as many fragmentary plays which it is possible to recon-
struct in outline and which increase and diversify the challenge still more. The
Preface and General Introduction to Selected Fragmentary Plays 1(1995) assert-
ed the great interest of these plays in their own right, and described the ways in
which they illuminate the complete plays while depending on them for their own
illumination.
While the two volumes are in the general style of the Aris & Phillips
Classical Texts, the fragmentary material on which they draw has sometimes to
be presented and discussed on a fuller scale, and is offered to a rather wider
readership. Not just school, college or university students and their teachers but
also professional scholars will, we hope, be served by these two volumes. For
each play there is an editor's introduction which attempts reconstruction and
appreciation, discussing context, plot, poetic resources and meaning. The Greek
text is faced by an English prose translation — for many of the plays the first
complete such translation to be published. The commentaries privilege interpret-
ation and appreciation as far as possible over philological discussion; but the
needs of fragmentary texts make the latter inseparable from the former.
The content and nature of the two volumes explain the omission of the
General Introduction to the Series and the General Bibliography which are
found in other volumes. Instead, a General Introduction to the fragmentary
tragedies is offered in Volume I, including a section which reviews the special
features and problems of these plays; and in each volume there is a Bibliography
listing frequently cited studies and editions, as well as a select Bibliography for
each play.
Oxford Christopher Coltard
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PREFACE
We have been pleased by the welcome given to the first volume of Euripides:
Selected Fragmentary Plays. All reviewers thought we had achieved our main
objectives, to increase accessibility to these fragmentary plays for specialists and
non-specialists alike, and to ‘encourage attention to some fascinating texts
which are often of considerable importance to the critical appreciation of the
poet' (Vol. I, Preface, p. vii). We have noted the following reviews:
JACT Review 20 (1996), 13-14 (R. Shone); Greece & Rome 42 (1996), 227
(S. Halliwell); L’Antiguité Classique 65 (1996), 269-70 (H. Van Looy); Bryn Mawr
Classical Review 8 (1997), 207-9 (S. Goldberg); Mnemosyne 50 (1997), 246-50
(M. A. Harder); Phoenix 51 (1997), 226—7 (R. Scodel); Prudentia 29 (1997), 60—4
(J. Davidson); Revue de Philologie 71 (1997), 297-8 (F. Jouan); Classical Review 48
(1998), 474—5 (S. Ireland); Echos du Monde Classique/Classical Views 18 (1999),
403-11 (J. R. Porter); Faventia 23 (2001), 138-9 (R. Torné Teixidó).
The contents of this second volume are as promised in the first. The plays
appear in known or likely chronological order. We include brief Addenda and
Corrigenda to Volume I, and an Index to both volumes.
Since the first volume appeared in 1995, F. Jouan and H. Van Looy have
not only begun but finished their Budé edition of the fragmentary plays and
unassigned fragments, in four volumes (1998-2003), and have published a
number of incidental papers. We commend their achievement as well as their
speed, and we record with regret the death of H. Van Looy soon after the last
volume was published; his earliest work on the fragments (see our Vol. 1 p. 4 n.
3 and p. 13) was very important as a starting-point and encouragement to others.
Like ourselves, Jouan and Van Looy benefited from the generous help of
Richard Kannicht, whose Euripides in TrGF is complete and may well have
appeared sooner than this volume. Mere congratulations to Professor Kannicht
will be insufficient to recognize the profound and exact scholarship which has
attended his work, and countless preparatory and separate studies, over more
than thirty years. It is already evident that much closer attention is being given
to Euripides' fragmentary plays than ever before.
Our working methods have been as in Volume I. Each of us took the first
and final responsibility for individual plays, as indicated on the contents-page.
All three of us have however read and annotated one another's drafts, and for
one memorable week in Oxford in August 2002 we were able to discuss a large
part of the volume as a team.
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We dedicate this volume to the memory of Kevin Lee, a fine Euripidean and
an even finer colleague and friend. These qualities were amply displayed and
appreciated at the 1999 Banff Euripides Conference which he and Martin Cropp
organized; together with David Sansone they saw the collected papers into print
as Euripides and Tragic Theatre in the Late Fifth Century, published as Illinois
Classical Studies 24/25 (1999-2000), a book similarly dedicated to the memory
of a wonderfully sympathetic Euripidean and spirit, Desmond Conacher, who
was the éminence of the Banff Conference.
Kevin Lee was to have undertaken Philoctetes and Alexandros (together
with Palamedes and Sisyphus) for our second volume. He had made a beginning
on them, and we have drawn upon his notes where practicable, acknowledging
them with his initials. Christopher Collard and Martin Cropp were very pleased
to have persuaded John Gibert to take Kevin's place, and in consequence we
reallocated some of the plays. The change in our team, and also some
unexpectedly long deflections of all three of us towards other work and duties,
have caused this second volume to appear much later than we had hoped.
In working on the fragments we have been more than usually conscious of a
debt to our predecessors, especially those who have edited and commented in
recent years on plays presented in this volume. In addition to Richard Kannicht
and the Budé editors, these include Godfrey Bond, Walter Cockle, James
Diggle, Annette Harder, Jean Kambitsis, Rainer Klimek-Winter, and Carl
Werner Müller. We are also grateful once more to colleagues and friends who
have encouraged and assisted us in various ways or offered valuable comments
on our first volume: Colin Austin, Walter Cockle, James Diggle, Pat Easterling,
Wolfgang Luppe, Jim Neville, Doug Olson, John Porter, and Scott Scullion.
As before, preparation of the final copy was undertaken by Martin Cropp,
who thanks Jason McClure and Paul Harms for their assistance with copy-
editing and indexing. He also wishes to acknowledge the support of a Center for
Hellenic Studies Summer Scholarship (1999), a University of Calgary Research
Grant (1997-2000), and a University of Calgary Sabbatical Research Fellowship
(Fall 2000).
We conclude this Preface by expressing our gratitude to Adrian and
Lucinda Phillips of Aris and Phillips, who supported and published our first
volume with particular enthusiasm, and with warm thanks to David Brown of
Oxbow Books, who has taken over their imprint and was willing to accept a
book bigger than we had at first expected to produce.
August 2004 Christopher Collard (Oxford)
Martin Cropp (Calgary)
John Gibert (Boulder)
