Euripides: Medea (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) (Greek and English Edition) unknown Edition

This book contains the Greek text of Euripides' Medea with a comprehensive commentary by Donald Mastronarde. The commentary is very thorough and helpful, geared not only to the undergraduate with grammar references (to Smyth), explanatory notes, unusual vocabulary, and hapaxes, but also includes scholarly references in places. I found the commentary less frustrating than many - it offered clear notes on nearly all of the questions I had as I read, and was good at explaining vernacular expressions. There were also good explanations on how each stasimon and episode related to the work as a whole.But in particular, the introductory sections - the first 108 pages of 425 pages - are really comprehensive. There are chapters on Euripides the playwright, the structure and themes of the work, the Medea myth and the work's contribution to it, problems, other versions of the Medea myth and its life after Euripides' version, the text, and a really good clear section on the structural elements of Greek tragedy (which I have bookmarked for future reference). Then there are sections on language and style, and meter.I have come to expect excellence from the Cambridge series and I must say that I haven't been disappointed by this edition.

Professor Mastronarde's edition of Euripides Medea contains the Greek text, along with a full introduction to the play, its dramaturgy, and its language. The commentary is thorough and, what is unusual for such things, very readable, focusing on issues of character and dramaturgy, in addition to the expected philological and linguistic material. Highly recommended for intermediate and advanced students of Classical Greek.

Medea kicks butt. There is no one like her in any tragedy, anywhere, at any time. She's a classic example of the subversion of women in Ancient Greece, but how cunning and circumspection can draw women to the surface (even too far, as Medea demonstrates).

Arrived on time and as described.

The commentary by Mastronarde is masterful.

Beware! This doesn’t have parallel Greek and English text, so not very much help for new students of Greek