Volume 1 of Euripides Herakles is a detailed reading and translation of Euripides' classic tragedy and its context.

Volume 2 contains Wilamowitz-Moellendorff's commentary on the etymological, historical and dramatic details of Euripides' interpretation of Herakles' tragic fate.

Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848 1931) was one of the most prominent German philologists of his time and his work is still well regarded. This book, originally published in 1893, is a detailed analysis of the The Constitution of the Athenians, then usually (though not universally) regarded as a work of Aristotle. Wilamowitz accepts Aristotle's authorship of the famous treatise on the history of the constitution that restored democracy after the oligarchy of the Thirty (403 BCE). Volume 2 reconstructs Athenian constitutional history on the basis of the work. A number of essays...