Suggestions for Further Reading

For classical references in general, see The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 4th ed., ed. Spawforth, Hornblower, and Eidinow, 2012.

*Adkins, A. W. H. “Basic Greek Values in Euripides’ Hecuba and Hercules Furens.” Classical Quarterly 16 (1966): 193–219.

——. Merit and Responsibility: A Study in Greek Values. 1960. Reprint, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975.

Arnott, W. G. “Euripides’ Newfangled Helen.” Antichthon 24 (1990): 1–18.

^*Arrowsmith, William. “Euripides’ Theatre of Ideas.” 1964. Reprinted in Euripides: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Erich Segal, 13–33. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1968.

Barlow, Shirley A. The Imagery of Euripides. 3rd ed. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2008.

Bieber, Margarete. The History of the Greek and Roman Theater. 2nd ed. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1961.

Blondell, Ruby. Helen of Troy: Beauty, Myth, Devastation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Burnett, Anne Pippin. Catastrophe Survived: Euripides’ Plays of Mixed Reversal. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971.

——. “Trojan Women and the Ganymede Ode.” Yale Classical Studies 25 (1977): 291–316.

^*Conacher, D. J. Myth, Theme and Structure in Euripidean Drama. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1967.

Craik, Elizabeth. “Sexual Imagery in Troades.” In Euripides, Women, and Sexuality, ed. Anton Powell, 1–15. London: Routledge, 1990.

Croally, N. T. Euripidean Polemic: The “Trojan Women” and the Function of Tragedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Diggle, James. Euripidea. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.

——. Studies on the Text of Euripides. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981.

*Dodds, E. R. “Euripides the Irrationalist.” 1929. Reprinted in The Ancient Concept of Progress, 78–91. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973.

Gellie, G. H. “Hecuba and Tragedy.” Antichthon 14 (1980): 30–44.

^*Gilmartin, Kristine. “Talthybius in the Trojan Women.” American Journal of Philology 91 (1970): 291–316.

^*Goff, Barbara. Euripides: Trojan Women. London: Duckworth, 2009.

Gregory, Justina. Euripides and the Instruction of the Athenians. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991.

^*Grube, G. M. A. The Drama of Euripides. London: Methuen, 1941.

Halleran, Michael. Stagecraft in Euripides. Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble, 1985.

Havelock, Erik A. “Watching the Trojan Women.” In Euripides: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Erich Segal, 115–127. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1968.

^*Hughes, Bettany. Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore. New York: Knopf, 2005.

^*Jaeger, Werner. “Euripides and His Age.” In Paideia, I, trans. Gilbert Highet, 332–357. Oxford: Blackwell, 1939.

Kennelly, Brendan. Euripides’ “Trojan Women.” Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe, 1993.

Kip, A. Maria van Taalman. “Euripides and Melos.” Mnemosyne 40 (1987): 414–419.

Kitto, H. D. F. Greek Tragedy. 3rd ed. London: Methuen, 1961.

Kovacs, David. Euripidea. Leiden: Brill, 1994. Biographical sources with translations.

——. Euripidea Altera. Leiden: Brill, 1996. Discussions of Greek texts.

——. Euripidea Tertia. Leiden: Brill, 2003. Discussions of Greek texts.

——. The Heroic Muse: Studies in the “Hippolytus” and “Hecuba” of Euripides. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.

Lardinois, André, and Linda McClure, eds. Making Silence Speak: Women’s Voices in Greek Literature and Society. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001.

Lefkowitz, Mary R. Women in Greek Myth. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

Lesky, Albin. Greek Tragedy. Translated by M. Dillon. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1983.

Lloyd, Michael. The Agon in Euripides. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.

——. “The Helen Scene in Euripides’ Troades.” Classical Quarterly 34 (1984): 303–313.

Lloyd-Jones, Hugh. The Justice of Zeus. 2nd ed. Berkeley: University of California, 1983.

Maguire, Laurie E. Helen of Troy from Homer to Hollywood. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

Mastronade, Donald. The Art of Euripides: Dramatic Technique and Social Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

McHardy, Fiona. Revenge in Athenian Culture. London: Duckworth, 2008.

*Meridor, Ra’anana. “Hecuba’s Revenge.” American Journal of Philology 96 (1978): 28–35.

^*Michelini, Ann Norris. Euripides and the Tragic Tradition. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. Contains a history of Euripidean scholarship (pp. 131–180 on Hecuba).

Mossman, Janet, ed. Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Euripides. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

^*——. Wild Justice: A Study in Euripides’ “Hecuba.” Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995.

Munteanu, Dana LaCourse. “The Tragic Muse and the Anti-Epic Glory of Women in Euripides’ Troades.” Classical Journal 106 (2011): 129–147.

Murray, Gilbert. “Euripides’ Tragedies of 415 B.C.: The Deceitfulness of Life.” Greek Studies (1946): 127–148.

^*——. Euripides and His Age. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1965.

^*Nussbaum, Martha C. The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy. Rev. ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. (pp. 397–421 on Hecuba.)

Osofisan, Femi. Women of Owu. Ibadan: University Press, 2006. African adaptation of Trojan Women.

Perdicoyanni, Hélène. Commentaire sur les Troyennes d’ Euripide. Athens: Editions Historiques Stefanos Basilopoulos, 1992.

Phillips, David D. Avengers of Blood: Homicide in Athenian Law and Custom from Draco to Demosthenes. Stuttgart: Steiner, 2008.

*Poole, Adrian. “Total Disaster: Euripides’ Trojan Women.” Arion 3 (1976): 257–287.

Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin. Anxiety Veiled: Euripides and the Traffic in Women. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993.

Roisman, Hanna, ed. The Encyclopedia of Greek Tragedy. 3 vols. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.

Sartre, Jean-Paul. Les Troyennes. Paris: Gallimard, 1965. French adaptation. English version: Duncan, Ronald. The Trojan Women. New York: Knopf, 1967.

——. “Why the Trojan Women?” 1965. Reprinted in Euripides: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Erich Segal, trans. Jeffrey Mehlman, 128–131. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1968.

Scodel, Ruth. The Trojan Trilogy of Euripides. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1980.

Segal, Charles. Euripides and the Poetics of Sorrow: Art, Gender, and Commemoration in “Alcestis,” “Hippolytus,” and “Hecuba.” Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993.

Segal, Erich. “Euripides: Poet of Paradox.” Oxford Readings in Greek Tragedy, ed. Erich Segal, 244–253. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983.

Seneca. “Troades”: Text, Translation and Commentary. Edited by Elaine Fantham. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982.

*Sidwell, Keith. “Melos and the Trojan Women.” In Trojan Women: A Collection of Essays, ed. David Stuttard and Tamsin Shasha, 30–44. York: Actors of Dionysos, 2001.

Skutsch, O. “Helen, Her Name and Nature.” Journal of Hellenic Studies 107 (1987): 188–193.

^*Stanford, W. B. Greek Tragedy and the Emotions. London: Routledge, 1983.

Stevens, P. T. Colloquial Expressions in Euripides. Weisbaden: Steiner, 1976.

Stuttard, David. An Introduction to “Trojan Women”: Including an Adaptation of the Play. Brighton: Company Dionysos, 2005.

Vellacott, Philip. Ironic Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975.

Walton, J. Michael. Euripides Our Contemporary. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.

^*Webster, T. B. L. The Tragedies of Euripides. London: Methuen, 1967.

West, M. L. Immortal Helen. London: Bedford College, 1975.

 

^* Entries marked by an asterisk are basic reading.