Description
The series Griechische Dramen [Greek Dramas] explores the classical Greek tragedies from Athens by providing a new German translation into prose, while staying close to the original text, with an extensive linguistic and factual commentary facing the relevant text with a translation.
The text used for this edition of Euripides' Hecuba is based on the editor's own manuscript studies; a prose translation, introduction and detailed commentary are provided. The introduction and the commentary treat the structure of the play and its parts, the interpretation of it, and also problems of staging it; they also give historical and factual information. They are written in such a way that they can also be used by readers without a knowledge of Greek.
Kjeld Matthiessen, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.
"Die sprachliche und sachliche Interpretation des Textes ist insgesamt - wie nicht anders zu erwarten - hervorragend; der kritische Apparat dient außer der Diskussion textkritischer Probleme auch der Darstellung sprachlicher Besonderheiten [...]."
Walter Stockert in: Gnomon 4/2010
"[...] this commentary will ensure that Hekabe continues to receive the attention it deserves."
Justina Gregory in: BMCR 2009.05.35
