The Rhesus Attributed to Euripides

Marco Fantuzzi (Roehampton University, London)

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English

Cambridge University Press
08 February 2024

Literary theory; Literary studies: plays & playwrights; Literary reference works; Ancient history: to c 500 CE

Series: Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries

The tragedy Rhesus has come down to us among the plays of Euripides but was probably the work either of fourth-century BC actors or producers heavily rewriting his original play or of a fourth-century author writing in competition. This edition explores the play as a 'postclassical' tragedy, composed when the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides had become the 'classical' canon. Its stylistic mannerisms, cerebral re-use of the motifs and language of fifth-century tragedy, and endemic experimentalism with various models of intertextuality exemplify the anxiety of influence of the Rhesus as a text that 'comes after' fifth-century drama and Book 10 of the Iliad. The anachronistic adaptations of the world of the epic heroes to the new reality of the polis and the irresistible rise of Macedonian power also reveal the Rhesus attempting to be both seriously intertextual with its models and seriously different from them.

Edited by: Marco Fantuzzi (Roehampton University London)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Weight: 876g
ISBN: 9781107629349
ISBN 10: 1107629349
Series: Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries
Pages: 719
Publication Date: 08 February 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

MARCO FANTUZZI is a Professor of Classics at the University of Roehampton, London. His publications include Bionis Smyrnaei Adonidis epitaphium (1985), Ricerche su Apollonio Rodio (1988), Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry (Cambridge 2004; with R. Hunter) and Achilles in Love (2012). He co-edited (with R. Pretagostini) Struttura e storia dell'esametro greco (1995-1996), (with T. Papanghelis) Brill's Companion to Greek and Latin Pastoral (2006) and (with C. Tsagalis) The Greek Epic Cycle and Its Ancient Reception: A Companion (Cambridge 2015).