Euripides' Hippolytus - (Oklahoma Classical Culture) by Hanna M Roisman (Paperback)

About the Book

"Euripides' Hippolytus is a Greek drama about passion, innocence, rejection, betrayal, and the tragic breakdown of a family. This commentary, designed for intermediate and advanced students of ancient Greek, helps readers understand and fully appreciate this classic tragedy in all its rich complexity"--

Book Synopsis

Euripides' Hippolytus is a fascinating play about passion, innocence, rejection, betrayal, and the tragic breakdown of a family. This commentary, designed for intermediate and advanced students of ancient Greek, helps readers understand and fully appreciate this classic tragedy in all its rich complexity. The volume is the first commentary on the play to appear in print since 1996, and it is the most student-friendly guide to Hippolytus currently available.

To make the play accessible to students who are tackling it for the first time, this book features the Greek text in sections followed immediately by detailed line-by-line notes. By explaining various points of vocabulary, grammar, syntax, and content, these notes allow students to read the play on their own without resorting frequently to dictionaries or other outside aids. The volume also includes the complete, uninterrupted text of the play. In her wide-ranging introduction to the book, Hanna M. Roisman discusses the play's mythological background and relevant aspects of Greek tragedy and performance. In addition, she explains the literary devices Euripides employs, as well as meter, prosody, and lexicality.

Comprehensive in scope, this commentary concludes with a detailed glossary; a line-by-line index of grammatical, syntactical, literary, and rhetorical figures; a list of irregular verbs; and a select bibliography.

Review Quotes

"Geared to the needs of twenty-first-century students, this commentary on Hippolytus balances accessibility with pointers to more advanced scholarship. Roisman offers her readers basic support with ancient Greek vocabulary, as well as a full guide to syntactical, literary, and rhetorical conventions."--Sophie Mills, author of Drama, Oratory, and Thucydides in Fifth-Century Athens: Teaching Imperial Lessons


"This up-to-date, easy-to-use commentary on Euripides' Hippolytus is ideal for students at the intermediate level of ancient Greek. Written by an expert on Greek tragedy who has decades of teaching experience in the classroom, it offers a wealth of grammatical, lexical, and metrical resources. Hanna Roisman writes with such contagious enthusiasm that the students are likely to become as fascinated by the Hippolytus as she is!"--Anne H. Groton, author of From Alpha to Omega: A Beginning Course in Classical Greek