THE ODES OF EURIPIDES’ SUPPLICES: Euripide: Supplici. I Canti. (I Canti del Teatro Greco 10.) Pp. 135, pls. Pisa and Rome: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2021. Paper, €44. ISBN: 978-88-3315-349-0

• Published in: The Classical Review Vol. 73; no. 1; pp. 61 - 63
• Main Author: Ruggiero Lionetti
• Format: Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 01.04.2023
• Subjects: Classical literature; Correspondence; Euripides (c 485-406 BC); Greek literature
• ISSN: 0009-840X; 1464-3561
• DOI: 10.1017/S0009840X22001731

G.'s methodology will not be immediately apparent to readers unfamiliar with the series or with the body of scholarship that, in the last decades, has been arguing and elaborating on the assumption that the MSS colometry might reflect the original arrangement of the lyrics. In his treatment of the second stasimon, no attention is paid to the lack of correspondence between speaker changes within the second strophic pair (Supp. 618–25 ~ 626–33), and Wilamowitz's linguistically and formally resolutive μόλοις at Supp. 621 is not recorded in the apparatus (a brief discussion in R. Lionetti, Lexis [2016], 73 n. 101). G. rules out that Evadne's lyrics at Supp. 990–1008 and 1012–30 respond to each other, despite what Collard defines as ‘detailed responsion between the metrical periods in language and ideas’ (ii.346); furthermore, the MSS’ incorrect division of the spoken trimeters at Supp. 1009–11 inspires little confidence in the reliability of the manuscript colometry.