A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama (2nd edition)

At risk of repeating myself from some previous reviews, I am again driven to observe that I wish this book had been available all those years ago when I was studying ancient Greek drama. We had textbooks and standard reference books, like the Oxford companions and dictionaries, of course, but nothing quite as handy as this. In a single compact volume, there is just about everything the student needs to give the wider background to whatever of the texts he or she may be studying. At school, I recall, it was for me Euripides’ Iphigeneia at Aulis and Sophocles Electra...