Euripides:Medea(CambridgeGreekandLatinClassics)

Thisup-to-dateeditionmakesEuripides'mostfamousandinfluentialplayaccessibletostudentsofGreekreadingtheirfirsttragedyaswellastomoreadvancedstudents.TheintroductionanalyzesMedeaasarevenge-plot,evaluatesthestrandsofmotivationthatleadtohertragicinsistenceonkillingherownchildren,andassessesthepotentialsympathyofaGreekaudienceforacharactertriplymarkedasother(barbarian,witch,woman).Auniquefeatureofthisbookistheintroductiontotragiclanguageandstyle.Thetext,revisedforthisedition,isaccompaniedbyanabbreviatedcriticalapparatus.Thecommentaryprovidesmorphologicalandsyntactichelpforinexperiencedstudentsandmoreadvancedobservationsonvocabulary,rhetoric,dramatictechniques,stageaction,anddetailsofinterpretation,fromthefamousdebateofMedeaandJasontothe'unmotivated'entranceofAegeusandthecontroversialmonologueofMedea.