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* [[Timothy Gantz|Gantz, Timothy]], ''Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources'', Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, Two volumes: {{ISBN|978-0-8018-5360-9}} (Vol. 1), {{ISBN|978-0-8018-5362-3}} (Vol. 2).
* [[Timothy Gantz|Gantz, Timothy]], ''Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources'', Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, Two volumes: {{ISBN|978-0-8018-5360-9}} (Vol. 1), {{ISBN|978-0-8018-5362-3}} (Vol. 2).
* Grenfell, B. P.. and Hunt, A. S., ''P. Oxy VI 852'', London, 1908
* Grenfell, B. P.. and Hunt, A. S., ''P. Oxy VI 852'', London, 1908
* Pepin, Ronald E., ''The Vatican Mythographers'', Fordham University Press, 2008. {{ISBN|9780823228928}}.


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Hypsipyle
Written byEuripides
Place premieredAthens
Original languageAncient Greek
GenreTragedy

Hypsipyle (Template:Lang-grc) is a partially preserved tragedy by Euripides, about the legend of queen Hypsipyle of Lemnos, daughter of King Thoas.[1] It was one of his last and most elaborate plays.[2] It was performed c. 411–407, along with The Phoenician Women which survives in full, and the lost Antiope.[3]

Originally only known from a few fragments, knowledge of the play was greatly expanded with the discovery of Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 852 in 1905, and its publication by Grenfell and Hunt in 1908.[4] Of his lost plays, it is the one with the most extensive fragments.[5]

Plot

The play is based on three stories of Hypsipyle's legend: the rescue of her father, her meeting with Jason and the Argonauts, and her subsequent exile from Lemnos.[6]

Notes

  1. ^ For the extant fragments of the play with introduction and notes see Collard and Cropp, pp. 250–321.
  2. ^ Collard and Cropp, p. 251.
  3. ^ Collard and Cropp, pp. xiv, 254.
  4. ^ Collard and Cropp, pp. 250, 255; Gantz, p. 511 with note 44.
  5. ^ Collard and Cropp, p. 255.
  6. ^ For a detailed discussion of the background and plot of the play see Collard and Cropp, pp. 251–254.

References

  • Bravo III, Jorge J., Excavations at Nemea IV: The Shrine of Opheltes, Univ of California Press, 2018. ISBN 9780520967878.
  • Collard, Christopher and Martin Cropp (2008b), Euripides Fragments: Oedipus-Chrysippus: Other Fragments, Loeb Classical Library No. 506. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-674-99631-1. Online version at Harvard University Press.
  • Gantz, Timothy, Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, Two volumes: ISBN 978-0-8018-5360-9 (Vol. 1), ISBN 978-0-8018-5362-3 (Vol. 2).
  • Grenfell, B. P.. and Hunt, A. S., P. Oxy VI 852, London, 1908
  • Pepin, Ronald E., The Vatican Mythographers, Fordham University Press, 2008. ISBN 9780823228928.