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Bibliography of Pat Easterling (Excluding Reviews)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2026

P. E. Easterling
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Felix Budelmann
Affiliation:
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
Eveline Krummen
Affiliation:
Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria
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Books

Ovidiana Graeca: Fragments of a Byzantine Version of Ovid’s Amatory Works (with E. J. Kenney), PCPS Supplement 1, Cambridge 1965.Google Scholar
Dionysiaca: Nine Studies in Greek Poetry Presented to Sir Denys Page, ed. Dawe, R. D., Diggle, J. and Easterling, P. E., Cambridge 1978 (contribution by PE: ‘The Second Stasimon of Antigone’).Google Scholar
Sophocles, , Trachiniae (text and commentary: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics), Cambridge 1982 (translated into Greek 1997).Google Scholar
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, vol. 1 (ed. with Knox, B. M. W), Cambridge 1985, translated into Spanish (1990), Italian (1989, 1990), Greek (1990). Sections by PE on ‘Books and Readers in the Hellenistic and Imperial Periods’, ‘Semonides’, ‘Sophocles’, ‘The Fable’.Google Scholar
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The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy (ed.), Cambridge 1997 (chapters by PE: ‘A Show for Dionysus’, ‘Form and Performance’, ‘From Repertoire to Canon’).Google Scholar
Greek Scripts: An Illustrated Introduction (ed. with Handley, Carol), London 2001 (for the Hellenic Society).Google Scholar
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Articles and Book Chapters

The Manuscript A of Sophocles and Its Relation to the Moschopulean Recension’, CQ n.s. 10 (1960) 5164.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
The Clouds of Aristophanes: An English Translation (with H. J. Easterling), for the Cambridge Greek Play Committee, 1961.Google Scholar
Two Greek MSS of Spanish Provenance in Bishop Moore’s Collection’, Trans. Camb. Bibl. Soc. 3 (1961) 257–62.Google Scholar
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Sophocles, Trachiniae’, BICS 15 (1968) 5869.Google Scholar
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Repetition in Sophocles’, Hermes 101 (1973) 1434.Google Scholar
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The End of the Trachiniae’, ICS 6 (1981) 5674.Google Scholar
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