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BOD in Euripides' Alcestis and Andromache

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

James Diggle
Affiliation:
Queens' College, Cambridge

Extract

What relationship exists in Alcestis and Andromache between O (Laur. 31.10, saec. xii ex.) and D (Laur. 31.15, saec. xiv) and B (Par. gr. 2713, saec. xi) is a question which, for want of full and accurate collations, has long stood unresolved. The reports of these manuscripts offered by Kirchhoff are inaccurate and incomplete. In Alcestis Prinz–Wecklein quote only occasional readings of OD and disdain to give a full collation even of B. In Andromache Wecklein ignores O and reports only occasional readings of D. In Alcestis Murray rarely reports OD, in Andromache he reports O (collated for him by Wilamowitz) from time to time, D rarely. In the Budé edition, Meridier ignores OD in both plays.

Type
Notes
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1984

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References

1 Dated c. 1320 by Turyn, A., The Byzantine manuscript tradition of the tragedies of Euripides (Urbana 1957) 333Google Scholar. But Wilson, N. G., Scrittura e Civiltà vii (1983) 161–76Google Scholar, has given reasons for assigning it to the second half of the twelfth century.

2 Berlin 1855.

3 Leipzig 1899.

4 Leipzig 1900.

5 Oxford 1902.

6 Paris 1926, 1927.

7 Euripides: Hippolytos (Oxford 1964) 65Google Scholar n. 2.

8 La Tradizione manoscrilta Euripidea (Padua 1965) 102.Google Scholar

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11 Teubner edn (Leipzig 1980) vi–vii.

12 Teubner edn (Leipzig 1978) xiv n. 3.

13 See my review in CR xxxi (1981) 4–6.

14 Paris/Florence 1938.

15 Ed. G. A. Longman, CQ ix (1959) 129–41.

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17 Ed. Matthiessen, K., Hermes xciv (1966) 398410.Google Scholar

18 I am grateful to Mr P. J. Parsons for communicating the readings of this papyrus, and to the Egypt Exploration Society for permission to quote it (I do so once, at 53).