A Companion to Euripides is an up-to-date, centralized assessment of Euripides and his work, drawing from the most recently published texts, commentaries, and scholarship, and offering detailed discussions and provocative interpretations of his extant plays and fragments.

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 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 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. Dunn 30 Myth 468 Matthew Wright 31 Euripides and Religion 483 Judith Fletcher 32 Gender 500 Melissa Mueller Part VII Reception 515 33 Euripides, Aristophanes, and the Reception of “Sophistic” Styles 517 Nancy Worman 34 Euripides in the Fourth Century BCE 533 Anne Duncan 35 Euripides and Senecan Drama 546 Christopher Star 36 All Aboard the Bacchae Bus: Reception of Euripides in the Twentieth and Twenty‐first Centuries 565 Barbara Goff Index 583

A COMPANION TO EURIPIDES Euripides has enjoyed a resurgence of interest as a result of many recent important publications, attesting to the poet’s enduring relevance to the modern world. A Companion to Euripides is the product of this contemporary work, with many essays drawing on the latest texts, commentaries, and scholarship on the man and his oeuvre. Divided into seven sections, the companion begins with a general discussion of Euripidean drama. The following sections contain essays on Euripidean biography and the manuscript tradition, and individual essays on each play, organized in chronological order. Chapters offer summaries of important scholarship and methodologies, synopses of individual plays and the myths from which they borrow their plots, and conclude with suggestions for additional reading. The final two sections deal with topics central to Euripidean scholarship, such as religion, myth, and gender, and the reception of Euripides from the 4th century BCE to the modern world. A Companion to Euripides brings together a variety of leading Euripides scholars from a wide range of perspectives. As a result, specific issues and themes emerge across the chapters as central to our understanding of the poet and his meaning for our time. Contributions are original and provocative interpretations of Euripides’ plays, which forge important paths of inquiry for future scholarship.

"This Companion highlights the performative and contextual aspects of old plays, making experienced researchers look afresh to them and presenting itself as a great introduction for students and young scholars." Sofia Frade, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, Centro de Estudos Clássicos, Cadmo – Revista de História Antiga, Cadmo 27