Hostname: page-component-7dd5485656-tbj44 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-10-31T08:31:59.818Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

THE IRONY OF CONSOLATION IN EURIPIDES' PLAYS AND FRAGMENTS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 May 2016

James H. Kim On Chong-Gossard
James H. Kim On Chong-Gossard*
Affiliation:
University of Melbournekoc@unimelb.edu.au
Get access

Extract

At the mid-point of Euripides' Hippolytus, Theseus arrives to find that his wife Phaedra has hanged herself, for a reason yet unknown. As he laments over his wife's corpse, the chorus of Troezenian women offers apparently standard consolation:

Information

Type
Research Article
Information
Ramus , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , June 2016 , pp. 18 - 44
Copyright
Copyright © Aureal Publications 2016 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

References

Allan, W. (2008), Euripides: Helen (Cambridge).Google Scholar
Baltussen, H. (ed.) (2013), Greek and Roman Consolations: Eight Studies of a Tradition and its Afterlife (Swansea).Google Scholar
Barrett, W.S. (ed.) (1964), Euripides: Hippolytus (Oxford).Google Scholar
Buecheler, F. (ed.) (1895), Carmina Latina Epigraphica, Vol. I (Leipzig).Google Scholar
Chong-Gossard, J.H.K.O. (2009), ‘Consolation in Euripides’ Hypsipyle’, in Cousland, J.R.C. and Hume, J.R. (eds.), The Play of Texts and Fragments: Essays in Honour of Martin Cropp (Leiden), 11-22.Google Scholar
Chong-Gossard, J.H.K.O. (2013), ‘Mourning and Consolation in Greek Tragedy: The Rejection of Comfort’, in Baltussen (above), 37-66.Google Scholar
Ciani, M.G. (1975), ‘La consolatio nei tragici greci: elementi di un topos’, BIFG 2, 89-129.Google Scholar
Collard, C., and Cropp, M.J. (eds. and trs.) (2008a), Euripides Vol. 7 (Aegeus-Meleager) (Cambridge MA).Google Scholar
Collard, C., and Cropp, M.J. (eds. and trs.) (2008b), Euripides Vol. 8 (Oedipus-Chrysippus, Other Fragments) (Cambridge MA).Google Scholar
Cropp, M.J. (ed. and tr.) (1995), ‘Euripides’ Cresphontes’, in Collard, C., Cropp, M.J. and Lee, K.H. (eds.), Euripides: Selected Fragmentary Plays Vol. 1 (Warminster), 121-47.Google Scholar
Dale, A.M. (ed.) (1967), Euripides: Helen (Oxford).Google Scholar
Denniston, J.D. (1954), The Greek Particles2 (Oxford).Google Scholar
Diggle, J. (ed.) (1984), Euripidis Fabulae Vol. 1: Cyclops, Alcestis, Medea, Heraclidae, Hippolytus, Andromacha, Hecuba (Oxford).Google Scholar
Diggle, J. (ed.) (1994), Euripidis Fabulae Vol. 3: Helena, Phoenissae, Orestes, Bacchae, Iphigenia Aulidensis, Rhesus (Oxford).Google Scholar
Finglass, P.J. (2014), ‘A New Fragment of Euripides’ Ino’, ZPE 189, 65-82.Google Scholar
Foley, H.P. (1985), Ritual Irony: Poetry and Sacrifice in Euripides (Ithaca NY).Google Scholar
Gill, C. (2005), ‘Tragic Fragments, Ancient Philosophers and the Fragmented Self’, in McHardy, F., Robson, J. and Harvey, D. (eds.), Lost Dramas of Classical Athens: Greek Tragic Fragments (Exeter), 151-72.Google Scholar
Goldhill, S. (2012), Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy (Oxford).Google Scholar
Halleran, M.R. (1986), ‘Rhetoric, Irony, and the Ending of Euripides’ Herakles’, ClAnt 5, 171-81.Google Scholar
Halliwell, S. (1997), ‘Between Public and Private: Tragedy and Athenian Experience of Rhetoric’, in Pelling, C. (ed.), Greek Tragedy and the Historian (Oxford), 121-41.Google Scholar
Harder, A. (ed.) (1985), Euripides’ Kresphontes and Archelaos: Introduction, Text and Commentary (Leiden).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jackson, J. (1955), Marginalia Scaenica (London).Google Scholar
Kannicht, R. (ed.) (1969), Euripides: Helena (2 vols.: Heidelberg).Google Scholar
Kassel, R. (1958), Untersuchungen zur griechischen und römischen Konsolationsliteratur (Munich).Google Scholar
Lloyd, M. (ed.) (1994), Euripides: Andromache (Warminster).Google Scholar
Lowe, N.J. (1996), ‘Tragic and Homeric Ironies: Response to Rosenmeyer’, in Silk, M.S. (ed.), Tragedy and the Tragic: Greek Theatre and Beyond (Oxford), 520-33.Google Scholar
Luppe, W., and Henry, W.B. (2012), ‘5131: Tragedy (Euripides, Ino)?’, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri 78, 19-25.Google Scholar
Markantonatos, A. (2013), Review of Goldhill (2012), BMCR 2013.06.09 (http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2013/2013-06-09.html)Google Scholar
Mastronarde, D.J. (1979), Contact and Discontinuity: Some Conventions of Speech and Action on the Greek Tragic Stage (Berkeley).Google Scholar
Meridor, R. (1984), ‘Plot and Myth in Euripides’ Heracles and Troades’, Phoenix 38, 205-15.Google Scholar
Michelini, A.M. (1987), Euripides and the Tragic Tradition (Madison).Google Scholar
Mossman, J. (2005), ‘Women's Voices’, in Gregory, J. (ed.), A Companion to Greek Tragedy (Malden MA), 352-65.Google Scholar
Muecke, D.C. (1969), The Compass of Irony (London).Google Scholar
Page, D. (ed.) (1938), Euripides: Medea (Oxford).Google Scholar
Roisman, H.M. (1999), Nothing Is As It Seems: The Tragedy of the Implicit in Euripides’ Hippolytus (Lanham).Google Scholar
Rosenmeyer, T.G. (1996), ‘Ironies in Serious Drama,’ in Silk, M.S. (ed.), Tragedy and the Tragic: Greek Theatre and Beyond (Oxford), 497-519.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rutherford, R.B. (2012), Greek Tragic Style: Form, Language and Interpretation (Cambridge).Google Scholar
Scourfield, J.H.D. (2013), ‘Towards a Genre of Consolation’, in Baltussen (above), 1-36.Google Scholar
Vellacott, P. (1975), Ironic Drama: A Study of Euripides’ Method and Meaning (Cambridge).Google Scholar
Webster, T.B.L. (1967), The Tragedies of Euripides (London).Google Scholar