Matthew Wright

Euripides and Quotation Culture

Sprachen: Englisch. 23,4 cm / 15,6 cm / 1,2 cm ( B/H/T )
Buch (Softcover), 220 Seiten
EAN 9781350441217
Veröffentlicht Februar 2026
Verlag/Hersteller Bloomsbury Academic

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Presenting a new approach to Euripides' plays, this book explores the playwright's ancient tragedies in relation to quotation culture.Treating extant works and lost works side-by-side, Matthew Wright presents a selective survey of ways in which Euripidean tragedy was quoted within antiquity, both in social contexts (on the comic stage, at symposia, in law courts, in education) and in different literary genres (drama, biography, oratory, philosophy, literary scholarship, history and anthologies). There is also a discussion of the connection between quotability and classic status, where Wright asks what quotations can tell us about ancient reading habits. The implication is that Euripides actively participated in quotation culture by deliberately making certain portions of his plays stand out as especially quotable.
Within classical antiquity, Euripides was the most widely quoted author apart from Homer. His plays are full of 'quotable quotes', which were repeated so often that they acquired a life of their own. Hundreds of famous verses from Euripidean drama circulated widely within the ancient world, even after the plays in which they originally featured became forgotten or vanished completely. Indeed, the majority of Euripides' tragedies now survive only in the form of scattered quotations, otherwise known to us as 'fragments'. It is this corpus of fragmentary quotations, along with his extant plays, that makes Euripides such an interesting case study in the world of quotation culture. This book is the first of its kind to understand Euripides' work through this lens, as well as opening up quotation culture as a major theme of interest within classical scholarship.

Portrait

Matthew Wright is Professor of Greek at the University of Exeter, UK. He has published widely on Greek tragedy and comedy, including The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy (Volume 2): Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides(Bloomsbury, 2018), The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy (Volume 1): Neglected Authors(Bloomsbury, 2016) and The Comedian as Critic(Bloomsbury, 2012).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Chapter 1: 'Awfully Full of Quotations' Chapter 2: Quotation Markers and Framing Devices Chapter 3: How to Quote from Books You Haven't Read Chapter 4: Quotations in the Theatre Chapter 5: Quotations in the Classroom Chapter 6: Quotation as Performance Chapter 7: Quotations and Life Notes Bibliography Index

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