TY  - BOOK
AU  - Finglass,Patrick
TI  - Euripides and the Myth of Perseus: Two Lost Greek Tragedies Illuminated by a New Papyrus 
T2  - Sozomena : Studies in the Recovery of Ancient Texts ,
SN  - 9783111381695
U1  - 930 
PY  - 2024///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter
KW  - Greek drama (Tragedy)
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Mythologie
KW  - Papyrologie
KW  - Römische Kaiserzeit
KW  - Tragödie
KW  - Roman imperial period
KW  - Tragedy
KW  - mythology
KW  - papyrology
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Abbreviations --; List of Figures, Tables and Papyrological symbols --; Introduction --; 1 The Perseus Myth in Archaic and Classical Greece --; 2 Dictys and Danaë: Before the Hypotheses --; 3 The Hypotheses of P.Oxy. 5283 --; 4 Dictys and Danaë: In the Light of the Hypotheses --; 5 Euripides’ Tetralogy of 431 bc --; 6 A Rhetorical Context? --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - A recently-published second-century papyrus, P.Oxy. 5283, contains prose summaries (hypotheses) of six plays by the Greek dramatist Euripides, including two lost plays depicting the hero Perseus, Dictys and Danaë. This book demonstrates the significance of this discovery for our understanding of Greek tragedy. After setting out the mythological and dramatic context, and offering a new text and translation based on autopsy, the book analyses the light which the papyrus sheds on these plays, whose narratives, centred on female resistance to abusive male tyrants, speak as powerfully to us today as they did to their original audiences. It then investigates Euripides’ tragic trilogy of 431 BC, which ended with Dictys and began with Medea, whose dramatic power now stands in sharper focus given our improved understanding of the production in which it originally appeared. Finally, it ponders the purpose which these hypotheses served, and why readers in the second century AD should have wanted a summary of plays written more than half a millennium before. All Greek (and Latin) is translated, making the book accessible not just to classicists, but to theatre historians and to anyone interested in Greek literature, drama, and mythology
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111384146
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783111384146
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783111384146/original
ER  -