Sources and Additional Resources

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Text adapted from Gilbert Murray, 1902-1913, Euripidis Fabulae Clarendon Press, Oxford via Perseus. Links to Orestes, Hekabe, and Elektra.

The text has been modified slightly in response to Diggle 1981-1994, Euripidis fabulae 3 vols., Clarendon Press, Oxford.

Translation by E.P. Coleridge, 1938, Random House, New York via Perseus. Links to Orestes, Hekabe, and Elektra.

Colometry and scansion of lyric portions from Lourenço, The Lyric Metres of Euripidean Drama. Centro de Estudos Clássicos e Humanísticos, Coimbra. 2011. Available here.

Episode structure from Aichele, Klaus. 1971. “Das Epeisodion.” In Die Bauformen der griechischen Tragödie, edited by Walter Jens, 47–83.

If you want to learn more about Greek drama and meter, consider using some of the following references:

Dale, A. M. (1968) The Lyric Metres of Greek Drama. Cambridge, Eng. Discusses all the lyric meters in Aristophanes and the tragedians.

Dale, A. M. (1971-1983) Metrical Analyses of Tragic Choruses. London. All the lyrics performed by choruses in Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides scanned. Now very dated.

Parker, L.P.E. (1997) The Songs of Aristophanes. Oxford. Thorough discussion of all the lyrics in Aristophanes. Also very good on the meters of tragedy.

Rosenmeyer, T.G., M. Ostwald, and J.W. Halporn (eds.) (2nd edition, 1980) The Meters of Greek and Latin Poetry. Indianapolis. The most accessible introduction to Greek and Latin meters.

West, M.L. (1982) Greek Metre. Oxford. The best introduction to Greek meter.

For an overview of Greek tragic structure, see "The Structure of Greek Tragedy: An Overview", published by the Kosmos Society. The blog post includes some discussion of common meters.

For a succinct summary of Greek tragic structure, see "Typical Structure of a Greek Play", on the website of Univeristy of Tennessee Knoxville professor Bruce MacLennan.

For some supplementary rules for Greek syllable length, see Sidgwick and Morice's An Introduction to Greek Verse Composition with Exercises, published by Rivingtons.