Hypsipyle (play)
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| Written by | Euripides |
| Place premiered | Athens |
| Original language | Ancient Greek |
| Genre | Tragedy |
Hypsipyle (Template:Lang-grc) is a lost tragedy by Euripides, about the legend of queen Hypsipyle of Lemnos, daughter of King Thoas, and was one of his last plays. It was performed in 408 BC, along with The Phoenician Women which survives in full, and the lost Antiope.[1]
Originally only known from a few fragments, knowledge of the play was greatly expanded with the publication of Oxyrhynchus Papyri 852 in 1906. Of his lost plays, it is the one with the most extensive fragments, which amount to about a third of the play.[2][3]
Plot
The play is based on three stories of Hypsipyle's legend: her meeting with Jason and the Argonauts, the rescue of her father and her subsequent exile from Lemnos.[4]
References
- ^ https://www.ekathimerini.com/7072/article/ekathimerini/life/a-lost-tragedy-of-euripides-to-be-staged-for-the-first-time-in-ancient-epidaurus
- ^ https://www.academia.edu/31390806/Euripides_Hypsipyle_in_Literary_Encyclopedia
- ^ 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.
- ^ https://www.academia.edu/31390806/Euripides_Hypsipyle_in_Literary_Encyclopedia