PRINCIPAL

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• EDITIONS

EDITIONS OF SELECTED PLAYS  .—J . Markland (1763-1971), Supplices, Iphigenia A., Iphigenia T.; Ph . Brunck (1779–1780), Andromache, Medea, Orestes, Hecuba; R . Porson (1797–1801), Hecuba, Orestes, Phoenissae, Medea; H . Monk (1811–18,8), Hippolytus, Alcestis, Iphigenia A., Iphigenia T.; P . Elmsiey (1813–1821), Medea, Bacchae, Heraclidae, Supplices; G . Hermann (1831–1841), Hecuba (animadv. ad R . Porsom notas, first in 1800), Orestes, Alcestis, Iphigenia A., Iphigenia T., Helena, Ion, Hercules Furens; C . Badham (1851–1853), Iphigenia T., Helena, Ion; H . Weil, Hipp., Medea, Hec., Iph. in T., Iph. in A., Electra, Orestes (2nd ed., 1890) . It is impossible to give a list of .the English and foreign editions of single plays, but mention may be made of the Bacchae, by J . E .

Sandys (4th ed., 1900) and R . Y . Tyrrell (1892) ; Medea, by A . W . Verrall( 1883) ; Hippolytus, by J . P . Mahaffy (188,) ; and of the Hercules Furens, by Wilamowitz-MSllendorff (2nd ed., 1895), with a comprehensive introduction on the literature of Euripides . A selected list (up to 1896) will be found in J . B . Mayor's Guide to the Choice of Classical Books; see also N . Wecklein in C . Bursian's Jahresbericht, xxviii .

(1897), and for the earlier literature W . Engelmann, Scriptores Graeci (1881) . The little volumes on Euripides by J . P . Mahaffy (1879) and W . B .

Donne in Blackwood's " Ancient Classics for English Readers " will be found generally useful; see also P . Decharme, Euripide et l'esprit de son thedtre (1893); A . W . Verrall, Euripides the Rationalist (1895), and Essays on Four Plays of Euripides (1905); N . J . Patin, Etude sur Euripide (1872); O .

Ribbeck, Euripides and seine Zeit; and (for the life of the poet) Wilamowitz's ed. of the Hercules Furens (i . 1-42); P . Masqueray, Euripide et ses idees (1908) .