Table of Contents

Preface
General Editor’s Foreword
Abbreviations and Bibliography for The Children of Heracles
General Bibliography for Euripides
Introduction
  1. Myth
  2. Integrity and Structure of the Play
  3. Suppliant Tragedy
  4. Tragedy and History
  5. Setting and Staging
  6. The Heraclidae in Art
  7. The Date of the Play
  8. The Transmission of the Text
TEXT AND TRANSLATION
COMMENTARY

About the Author

William Allan is Associate Professor of Classics at Oxford University and the author of The Andromache and Euripidean Tragedy (Oxford University Press, 2000).

Reviews

“William Allan is rapidly establishing himself as a rising star in Euripidean studies.”
Ian C. Storey, Mouseion, 2004