Preface; Abbreviations; Key to metrical symbols; Introduction; 1. Euripides: life and works; 2. The date of the Hecuba; 3. Production; 3.1 Casting the play; 3.2 Stage movements; 4. Myth; 5. Characters and reciprocity: charis, xenia, philia; 6. Hecuba's revenge; 7. Reception; 8. Transmission of the text; 9. Presentation of textual evidence in this edition; 10. Metre and language; Symbols, sigla and abbreviations used in the edition of the Greek text; Hecuba; Commentary; Works cited; General index; Index of Greek words.
Battezzato, Luigi
Luigi Battezzato is Professor of Greek Literature at the Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Amadeo Avogradro, Vercelli. His publications include Italian translations of Aeschylus' Choephori (1995) and Euripides' Hecuba (2010), and he is the author of Il monologo nel teatro di Euripide (1995) and Linguistica e retorica della tragedia greca (2008). He has also published extensively on Greek tragedy and lyric, Greek metre and language, textual criticism and the history of classical scholarship.