Minor Greek Tragedians, Volume 1: The Fifth Century Fragments from the Tragedies with Selected Testimonia

by: Cropp, M.J.

Description
For the modern world Greek tragedy is represented almost entirely by those plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides whose texts have been preserved since they were first produced in the fifth century BC. From that period and the next two hundred years more than eighty other tragic poets are known from biographical and production data, play-titles, mythical subject-matter, and remnants of their works quoted by other ancient writers or rediscovered in papyrus texts. This edition includes all the remnants of tragedies that can be identified with these other poets, with English translations, related historical information, detailed explanatory notes and bibliographies. Volume 1 includes some twenty 5th-century poets, notably Phrynichus, Aristarchus, Ion, Achaeus, Sophocles? son Iophon, Agathon and the doubtful cases of Neophron (author of a Medea supposedly imitated by Euripides) and Critias (possibly author of three other tragedies attributed to Euripides). Volume 2 will include the 4th- and 3rd-century tragedians and some anonymous material derived from ancient sources or rediscovered papyrus texts.Remnants of these poets? satyr-plays are included in a separate Aris & Phillips Classical Texts volume, Euripides Cyclops and Major Fragments of Greek Satyric Drama, edited by Patrick O?Sullivan and Christopher Collard (2013).

?The most valuable element of the volume is the introductory discussions for each author and for each title, as well as the commentary notes to the testimonies and fragments.'
Felice Stama, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

?Our general opinion on Cropp's work is highly positive: well documented, scientifically up-to-date and rigorous, but at the same time easy to consult.?
Paolo B. Cipolla, Exemplaria Classica (translated from Italian).

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Section Title Page Price
Cover 1
Contents of Volume 1 5
Preface 7
Introduction 9
Tragedy in the fifth century: a sketch 9
Sources 18
This edition 22
Texts, Translations and Notes 25
Thespis (TrGF 1) 27
Choerilus (TrGF 2) 42
Phrynichus (TrGF 3) 47
Pratinas (TrGF 4) 73
Polyphrasmon (TrGF 7) 77
Aristias (TrGF 9) 78
Euphorion, Euaeon (TrGF 12, 13) 79
Aristarchus (TrGF 14) 82
Neophron (TrGF 15) 90
Euripides I, II (TrGF 16, 17) 98
Ion (TrGF 19) 100
Achaeus (TrGF 20) 131
Iophon (TrGF 22) 142
Philocles I (TrGF 24) 150
Xenocles I (TrGF 33) 158
Agathon (TrGF 39) 165
Critias? (TrGF 43) 204
Diogenes of Athens (TrGF 45) 259
Abbreviations and references 265
Indexes (Poets; Titles; Sources; General) 283

Minor Greek Tragedians, Volume 1: The Fifth Century Fragments from the Tragedies with Selected Testimonia

by: Cropp, M.J.

• ISBN-13: 9781786942036 / 978-1-78694-203-6
• ISBN-03: 1786942038 / 1-78694-203-8
• Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2021