Fragments, Volume II: Oedipus-Chrysippus. Other Fragments
Lost works by ancient Greece’s third great tragedian.

Eighteen of the ninety or so plays composed by Euripides between 455 and 406 BC survive in a complete form and are included in the preceding six volumes of the Loeb Euripides. A further fifty-two tragedies and eleven satyr plays, including a few of disputed authorship, are known from ancient quotations and references and from numerous papyri discovered since 1880. No more than one-fifth of any play is represented, but many can be reconstructed with some accuracy in outline, and many of the fragments are striking in themselves. The extant plays and the fragments together make Euripides by far the best known of the classic Greek tragedians.

This edition, in a projected two volumes, offers the first complete English translation of the fragments together with a selection of testimonia bearing on the content of the plays. The texts are based on the recent comprehensive edition of R. Kannicht. A general Introduction discusses the evidence for the lost plays. Each play is prefaced by a select bibliography and an introductory discussion of its mythical background, plot, and location of the fragments, general character, chronology, and impact on subsequent literary and artistic traditions.

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Fragments, Volume II: Oedipus-Chrysippus. Other Fragments
Lost works by ancient Greece’s third great tragedian.

Eighteen of the ninety or so plays composed by Euripides between 455 and 406 BC survive in a complete form and are included in the preceding six volumes of the Loeb Euripides. A further fifty-two tragedies and eleven satyr plays, including a few of disputed authorship, are known from ancient quotations and references and from numerous papyri discovered since 1880. No more than one-fifth of any play is represented, but many can be reconstructed with some accuracy in outline, and many of the fragments are striking in themselves. The extant plays and the fragments together make Euripides by far the best known of the classic Greek tragedians.

This edition, in a projected two volumes, offers the first complete English translation of the fragments together with a selection of testimonia bearing on the content of the plays. The texts are based on the recent comprehensive edition of R. Kannicht. A general Introduction discusses the evidence for the lost plays. Each play is prefaced by a select bibliography and an introductory discussion of its mythical background, plot, and location of the fragments, general character, chronology, and impact on subsequent literary and artistic traditions.

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Fragments, Volume II: Oedipus-Chrysippus. Other Fragments

Fragments, Volume II: Oedipus-Chrysippus. Other Fragments

by Euripides
Fragments, Volume II: Oedipus-Chrysippus. Other Fragments

Fragments, Volume II: Oedipus-Chrysippus. Other Fragments

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Lost works by ancient Greece’s third great tragedian.

Eighteen of the ninety or so plays composed by Euripides between 455 and 406 BC survive in a complete form and are included in the preceding six volumes of the Loeb Euripides. A further fifty-two tragedies and eleven satyr plays, including a few of disputed authorship, are known from ancient quotations and references and from numerous papyri discovered since 1880. No more than one-fifth of any play is represented, but many can be reconstructed with some accuracy in outline, and many of the fragments are striking in themselves. The extant plays and the fragments together make Euripides by far the best known of the classic Greek tragedians.

This edition, in a projected two volumes, offers the first complete English translation of the fragments together with a selection of testimonia bearing on the content of the plays. The texts are based on the recent comprehensive edition of R. Kannicht. A general Introduction discusses the evidence for the lost plays. Each play is prefaced by a select bibliography and an introductory discussion of its mythical background, plot, and location of the fragments, general character, chronology, and impact on subsequent literary and artistic traditions.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780674996311
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 01/31/2009
Series: Loeb Classical Library , #506
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 736
Product dimensions: 4.50(w) x 6.40(h) x 1.50(d)
Language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

About the Author

Christopher Collard is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Wales, Swansea.

Martin Cropp is Professor Emeritus of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Calgary, Canada.

Table of Contents


  • Preface

  • Chronology

  • Abbreviations


  • Oedipus

  • Oeneus

  • Oenomaus

  • Palamedes

  • Peliades

  • Peleus

  • Pleisthenes

  • Polyidus

  • Protesilaus

  • Rhesus

  • Stheneboea

  • Sisyphus

  • Sciron

  • Scyrians

  • Syleus

  • Telephus

  • Temenidae and Temenus

  • Temenidae or Temenus

  • Temenidae

  • Temenus

  • Hypsipyle

  • Phaethon

  • Philoctetes

  • Phoenix

  • Phrixus a and b

  • Phrixus a

  • Phrixus b

  • Phrixus a or b

  • Chrysippus


    Fragments of Unidentified Plays
    Doubtful or Spurious Fragments

    Appendix: Critias or Euripides?
  • Pirithous

  • Rhadamanthys

  • Tennes

  • Sisyphus(?)


  • Index


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