A Commentary on the Rhesus Attributed to Euripides

Vayos Liapis obtained his PhD from the University of Glasgow in 1997. He taught at the University of Cyprus (2000-2003) and the Université de Montréal (2003-2009), and is currently Associate Professor at the Open University of Cyprus. His previous books include a commentary on the Sententiae Menandri (Menandrou Gnomai Monostichoi, Athens, 2002), and a monograph on the unknowability of the gods in early Greek literature and thought, Agnostos Theos (Athens, 2003). He has also co-edited with Douglas Cairns Dionysalexandros: Essays on Aeschylus and His Fellow Tragedians in Honour of Alexander F. Garvie (Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2006). He has also published a variety articles on subjects ranging from archaic lyric to classical and postclassical tragedy to Hellenistic poetry and Greek religion.

• ABBREVIATIONS; METRICAL CONSPECTUS; INTRODUCTION; RHESUS ATTRIBUTED TO EURIPIDES; COMMENTARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX NOMINUM ET RERUM POTIORUM; INDEX LOCORUM

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