Hecuba

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

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Euripides: Hecuba: Introduction, Text, and Commentary by Justina Gregory

A comprehensive commentary on the play, keyed to the original Greek text, published by Oxford University Press in 1999.

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Wild Justice: A Study of Euripides’ Hecuba by Judith Mossman

A scholarly discussion of the play published by Clarendon in 1995. This edition explores various aspects of the play’s structure, context, and characterization, especially the characterization of Hecuba.