Euripides: Iphigenia at Aulis

Christopher Collard is Emeritus Professor of Classics, University of Swansea. He has published widely on tragedy and Euripides in particular. His work includes editions with commentary of Euripides, Suppliant Women (1975, 1984) and Hecuba (1991), and he is co-editor of Selected Fragmentary Plays of Euripides (1995, 2004) and Iphigenia at Aulis (2017). He was General Editor of the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series from 2007-2016. †James Morwood was Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford. Among his numerous publications are translations of eleven plays by Euripides in the Oxford World’s Classics series and 'The Plays of Euripides' (Bristol Classical Press, 2002).

• VOLUME 1General Editor's ForewordDedicationPrefaceIntroduction PreliminaryThe MythHuman and Animal SacrificeSacrifice before MarriageThe Political ContextPanhellenismDramatis PersonaeIphigeniaOff-stage – the ArmyThe ChorusThemes and Motifs: Looking; a Sense of Shame;Fortune, Chance and Necessity; GloryEarly Performance and Later ReceptionMetreTextBibliographyAbbreviationsNote on the Greek Text and Critical ApparatusGreek Text, Apparatus and TranslationVOLUME 2CommentaryCorrigenda and AddendaIndexes to Volumes 1 and 2

Reviews'The thoroughness of the editors’ work is manifest (and laudable) throughout, with ‘much discussion of plot, characters and dramaturgy’...This has been a labour of love (and on a Heraclean scale) for the editors, who deserve our thanks and congratulations.'Colin Leach, Classics for All