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The tragedy Rhesus has come down to us among the plays of Euripides but was probably the work either of fourth-century BC actors or producers heavily rewriting his original play or of a fourth-century author writing in competition. This edition explores the play as a 'postclassical' tragedy, composed when the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides had become the 'classical' canon. Its stylistic mannerisms, cerebral re-use of the motifs and language of fifth-century tragedy, and endemic experimentalism with various models of intertextuality exemplify the anxiety of influence of the Rhesus as a text that 'comes after' fifth-century drama and Book 10 of the Iliad. The anachronistic adaptations of the world of the epic heroes to the new reality of the polis and the irresistible rise of Macedonian power also reveal the Rhesus attempting to be both seriously intertextual with its models and seriously different from them.

Rhesus, --- Euripides --- Ėvripid --- Yūrībīdīs --- Euripide --- Euripedes --- Eŭripido --- Eurypides --- Euripidesu --- אוריפידס --- エウリーピデース --- Εὐριπίδης --- Resas, --- Reso, --- Resos, --- Rhēsos, --- Ῥῆσος, --- Рес, --- Рез, --- Резос, --- Рэс, --- 레소스, --- レーソス, --- Spurious and doubtful works. --- Rhesus. --- Rēsos --- Rhesos --- Resus --- Εὐριπίδου Ῥῆσος --- Ῥῆσος

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The poems of the Epic Cycle are assumed to be the reworking of myths and narratives which had their roots in an oral tradition predating that of many of the myths and narratives which took their present form in the Iliad and the Odyssey. The remains of these texts allow us to investigate diachronic aspects of epic diction as well as the extent of variation within it on the part of individual authors - two of the most important questions in modern research on archaic epic. They also help to illuminate the early history of Greek mythology. Access to the poems, however, has been thwarted by their current fragmentary state. This volume provides the scholarly community and graduate students with a thorough critical foundation for reading and interpreting them.

Epic poetry, Greek --- Lost literature --- Cycles (Literature) --- Poésie épique grecque --- Oeuvres perdues (Littérature) --- Cycles (Littérature) --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- History and criticism --- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient, Classical & Medieval. --- Antike. --- Epischer Kyklos. --- Kunst. --- Literatur. --- Rezeption. --- Griechenland. --- Poésie épique grecque --- Oeuvres perdues (Littérature) --- Cycles (Littérature) --- Epic poetry, Greek - History and criticism --- Lost literature - Greece --- Literature --- Sequels (Literature)