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A COMPANION TO EURIPIDES BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO THE ANCIENT WORLD This series provides sophisticated and authoritative overviews of periods of ancient history, genres of classical literature, and the most important themes in ancient culture. Each volume comprises approximately twenty‐five and forty concise essays written by individual scholars within their area of specialization. The essays are written in a clear, provocative, and lively manner, designed for an international audience of scholars, students, and general readers. ANCIENT HISTORY A Companion to Ancient Epic Published Edited by John Miles Foley A Companion to the Roman Army A Companion to Greek Tragedy Edited by Paul Erdkamp Edited by Justina Gregory A Companion to the Roman Republic A Companion to Latin Literature Edited by Nathan Rosenstein and Robert Morstein‐Marx Edited by Stephen Harrison A Companion to the Roman Empire A Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought Edited by David S. Potter Edited by Ryan K. Balot A Companion to the Classical Greek World A Companion to Ovid Edited by Konrad H. Kinzl Edited by Peter E. Knox A Companion to the Ancient Near East A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language Edited by Daniel C. Snell Edited by Egbert Bakker A Companion to the Hellenistic World A Companion to Hellenistic Literature Edited by Andrew Erskine Edited by Martine Cuypers and James J. Clauss A Companion to Late Antiquity A Companion to Vergil’s Aeneid and its Tradition Edited by Philip Rousseau Edited by Joseph Farrell and Michael C. J. Putnam A Companion to Ancient History A Companion to Horace Edited by Andrew Erskine Edited by Gregson Davis A Companion to Archaic Greece A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds Edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub and Hans van Wees Edited by Beryl Rawson A Companion to Julius Caesar A Companion to Greek Mythology Edited by Miriam Griffin Edited by Ken Dowden and Niall Livingstone A Companion to Byzantium A Companion to the Latin Language Edited by Liz James Edited by James Clackson A Companion to Ancient Egypt A Companion to Tacitus Edited by Alan B. Lloyd Edited by Victoria Emma Pagán A Companion to Ancient Macedonia A Companion to Women in the Ancient World Edited by Joseph Roisman and Ian Worthington Edited by Sharon L. James and Sheila Dillon A Companion to the Punic Wars A Companion to Sophocles Edited by Dexter Hoyos Edited by Kirk Ormand A Companion to Augustine A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East Edited by Mark Vessey Edited by Daniel Potts A Companion to Marcus Aurelius A Companion to Roman Love Elegy Edited by Marcel van Ackeren Edited by Barbara K. Gold A Companion to Ancient Greek Government A Companion to Greek Art Edited by Hans Beck Edited by Tyler Jo Smith and Dimitris Plantzos A Companion to the Neronian Age A Companion to Persius and Juvenal Edited by Emma Buckley and Martin T. Dinter Edited by Susanna Braund and Josiah Osgood A Companion to Greek Democracy and the Roman Republic A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Republic Edited by Dean Hammer Edited by Jane DeRose Evans A Companion to Livy A Companion to Terence Edited by Bernard Mineo Edited by Antony Augoustakis and Ariana Traill A Companion to Ancient Thrace A Companion to Roman Architecture Edited by Julia Valeva, Emil Nankov, and Denver Graninger Edited by Roger B. Ulrich and Caroline K. Quenemoen A Companion to Roman Italy A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity Edited by Alison E. Cooley Edited by Paul Christesen and Donald G. Kyle A Companion to the Etruscans A Companion to Plutarch Edited by Sinclair Bell and Alexandra A. Carpino Edited by Mark Beck A Companion to the Flavian Age of Imperial Rome A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities Edited by Andrew Zissos Edited by Thomas K. Hubbard A Companion to Science, Technology, and Medicine A Companion to the Ancient Novel in Ancient Greece and Rome Edited by Edmund P. Cueva and Shannon N. Byrne Edited by Georgia L. Irby A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean A Companion to Euripides Edited by Jeremy McInerney Edited by Laura K. McClure A Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art Edited by Melinda Hartwig LITERATURE AND CULTURE A Companion to the Archaeology of Religion in the Ancient World Edited by Rubina Raja and Jörg Rüpke Published A Companion to Food in the Ancient World A Companion to Classical Receptions Edited by John Wilkins and Robin Nadeau Edited by Lorna Hardwick and Christopher Stray A Companion to Ancient Education A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography Edited by W. Martin Bloomer Edited by John Marincola A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics A Companion to Catullus Edited by Pierre Destrée and Penelope Murray Edited by Marilyn B. Skinner A Companion to Roman Art A Companion to Roman Religion Edited by Barbara Borg Edited by Jörg Rüpke A Companion to Greek Literature A Companion to Greek Religion Edited by Martin Hose and David Schenker Edited by Daniel Ogden A Companion to Josephus in his World A Companion to the Classical Tradition Edited by Honora Howell Chapman and Zuleika Rodgers Edited by Craig W. Kallendorf A Companion to Greek Architecture A Companion to Roman Rhetoric Edited by Margaret M. Miles Edited by William Dominik and Jon Hall A Companion to Greek Rhetoric Edited by Ian Worthington A Companion TO EURIPIDES Edited by Laura K. McClure This edition first published 2017 © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Registered Office John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK Editorial Offices 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148‐5020, USA 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford, OX4 2DQ, UK The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK For details of our global editorial offices, for customer services, and for information about how to apply for permission to reuse the copyright material in this book please see our website at www.wiley.com/wiley‐blackwell. The right of Laura K. McClure to be identified as the author of the editorial material in this work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. 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Identifiers: LCCN 2016024717| ISBN 9781119257509 (Cloth) | ISBN 9781119257516 (ePDF) ISBN 9781119257523 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Euripides–Criticism and interpretation. Classification: LCC PA3978 .C73 2017 | DDC 882/.01–dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016024717 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Cover image: The Anger of Achilles, 1819 (oil on canvas), David, Jacques Louis (1748–1825)/ Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, USA/Bridgeman Images. Set in 10.5/13pt Galliard by SPi Global, Pondicherry, India 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents Notes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xiii List of Abbreviations xiv 1 Introduction 1 Laura K. McClure PART I Text, Author, and Tradition 9 2 Text and Transmission 11 Donald J. Mastronarde 3 The Euripidean Biography 27 Ruth Scodel 4 Euripides and the Development of Greek Tragedy 42 John Gibert PART II Early Plays (438–416 BCE) 59 5 Alcestis 61 Eirene Visvardi 6 Medea 80 Laura Swift 7 Children of Heracles 92 Owen E. Goslin vi Contents 8 Hippolytus 107 Mary Ebbott 9 Andromache 122 Ian C. Storey 10 Hecuba 136 Daniel Turkeltaub 11 Suppliant Women 152 Laura K. McClure 12 Electra 166 Hanna M. Roisman 13 Heracles: The Perfect Piece 182 C.W. Marshall PART III Later Plays (After 416 BCE) 197 14 Trojan Women 199 Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz 15 Iphigenia in Tauris 214 Jennifer Clarke Kosak 16 Ion: An Edible Fairy Tale? 228 Emma M. Griffiths 17 Significant Inconsistencies in Euripides’ Helen 243 Deborah Boedeker 18 Phoenician Women 258 Anna A. Lamari 19 Orestes 270 Elton Barker 20 Iphigenia at Aulis 284 Isabelle Torrance 21 Bacchae 298 Laurialan Reitzammer PART IV Satyr, Spurious, and Fragmentary Plays 313 22 Cyclops 315 Patrick O’Sullivan 23 Rhesus 334 Vayos Liapis 24 Fragments and Fragmentary Plays 347 Christopher Collard Contents vii PART V Form, Structure, and Performance 365 25 Form and Structure 367 Markus Dubischar 26 The Theater of Euripides 390 David Kawalko Roselli 27 The Euripidean Chorus 412 Sheila Murnaghan 28 Euripides and the Sound of Music 428 Armand D’Angour PART VI Topics and Approaches 445 29 Euripides and his Intellectual Context 447 Francis M.