BIBLIOGRAPHY

Texts

The standard Greek text, which forms the basis for this translation, is the new Oxford Classical Text edited by J. Diggle (3 volumes, 1984–94); this supersedes the much-used edition by G. Murray in the same series. The edition is arranged chronologically. Heracles, Ion and Iphigenia in Tauris are printed in volume 2, Helen in volume 3; the satyric Cyclops is set apart as the first play in volume I of Diggle’s text, although it is probably a play close to Helen in date.

Those wishing to consult the plays in Greek will find the best guidance in the following annotated editions:

Heracles: G. W. Bond (Oxford 1981); S. Barlow (Warminster 1998).

Iphigenia among the Taurians: M. Platnauer (Oxford 1938); M.J. Cropp (Warminster 2001) [this edition unfortunately appeared too late to be used in the preparation of the present volume].

Ion: A. S. Owen (Oxford 1939); K. Lee (Warminster 1997).

Helen: A. M. Dale (Oxford 1967); R. Kannicht (German; 2 volumes, Heidelberg 1969).

Cyclops: R. Seaford (Oxford 1984).

Other translations

The Loeb Classical Library, which publishes bilingual editions of most classical authors, is currently bringing out an edition of Euripides by David Kovacs, arranged chronologically: at the time of writing four volumes have appeared, taking the sequence as far as Iphigenia among the Taurians. This edition replaces an older and wholly unsatisfactory edition by A. S. Way. Those who need to consider the detail of the Greek text should note that Kovacs presents his own text, which often differs from Diggle’s.

Other translations available include those by various hands in the series edited by D. Grene and R. Lattimore, The Complete Greek Tragedies (Chicago 1941-58). Otherwise, complete versions of Euripides are hard to find, though the major plays are often translated individually or in smaller selections. A parallel enterprise to our own is the series published by Oxford University Press, with (prose) translations by James Morwood and introductions by Edith Hall: two volumes have appeared. These are grouped thematically rather than chronologically; the emphasis in the introductions is on reception and performance history.

General works on Greek tragedy

Goldhill, S., Reading Greek Tragedy (Cambridge 1986).

Hall, E., Inventing the Barbarian: Greek Self-definition through Tragedy (Oxford 1989).

Heath, M., The Poetics of Greek Tragedy (London 1987).

Jones, J., On Aristotle and Greek Tragedy (London 1962).

Knox, B. M. W., Word and Action: Essays on the Ancient Theater (Baltimore and London 1979).

Lesky, A., Greek Tragedy (English translation; London 1954).

Taplin, O., Greek Tragedy in Action (London 1978).

Taplin, O., The Stagecraft of Aeschylus (Oxford 1977): despite the title, relevant to all the tragedians.

Vernant, J.-P. and Vidal-Naquet, P., Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece (New York 1988; amalgamates two earlier collections of essays).

Vickers, B., Towards Greek Tragedy (London 1973).

Easterling, P. E. and Knox, B. M. W. (eds.), The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, vol. I (Cambridge 1985), includes expert essays on the Greek theatre and on each of the three tragedians (Knox covers Euripides); these chapters, together with those on satyric drama and comedy, were reissued in paperback as Greek Drama, eds. Easterling and Knox (Cambridge 1989).

Useful collections of work include:

Easterling, P. E. (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy (Cambridge 1997).

McAuslan, I. and Walcot, P. (eds.), Greek Tragedy (Greece & Rome Studies 2, Oxford 1993).

Pelling, C. B. R. (ed.), Greek Tragedy and the Historian (Oxford 1997).

Segal, E. (ed.), Oxford Readings in Greek Tragedy (Oxford 1983).

Silk, M. (ed.), Tragedy and the Tragic (Oxford 1996).

The Greek theatre

Csapo, E. and Slater, W. J., The Context of Ancient Drama (Michigan 1995): this excellent source-book translates and discusses many ancient texts relevant to theatrical conditions in the Greek and Roman world.

Green, J. R., Theatre in Ancient Greek Society (London 1994).

Green, R. and Handley, E., Images of the Greek Theatre (London 1995).

Pickard-Cambridge, A. W., The Dramatic Festivals of Athens (2nd edition revised by J. Gould and D. M. Lewis, Oxford 1968; reissued 1988): a standard work, but requires considerable knowledge of Greek.

Simon, E., The Ancient Theatre (English translation; Methuen, London and New York 1982).

Historical and cultural background

Andrewes, A., Greek Society (London 1971); originally published as The Greeks (London 1967).

Davies, J. K., Democracy and Classical Greece (London 1978; revised and expanded 1993).

Religion and thought

Bremmer, J. N., Greek Religion (Greece & Rome New Surveys 24, Oxford 1994).

Burkert, W., Greek Religion (English translation; Oxford 1985).

Dodds, E. R., The Greeks and the Irrational (Berkeley 1951).

Mikalson, J., Athenian Popular Religion (Chapel Hill 1983).

Mikalson, J., Honor thy Gods: Popular Religion in Greek Tragedy (Chapel Hill and London 1991): helpful, but perhaps emphasizes too strongly the gap between literature and the realities of cult and worship.

Parker, R., Miasma: Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion (Oxford 1983).

Studies of Euripides in general

Barlow, S. A., The Imagery of Euripides (London 1971).

Collard, C., Euripides (Greece & Rome New Surveys 14, Oxford 1981): an excellent short account with many examples and full bibliographical guidance.

Conacher, D. J., Euripidean Drama: Myth, Theme and Structure (Toronto and London 1967).

Michelini, A. N., Euripides and the Tragic Tradition (Madison, Wisconsin and London 1987): valuable chapters on the history of interpretation; also contains detailed ‘readings’ of four plays, including Heracles.

Murray, G., Euripides and his Age (London 1913); influential but out-dated.