Euripides, Meleager

Sonia Francisetti Brolin (Independent Scholar - Europe)

Ed. by Laura Swift, The Open University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.1.1: Greek Writing and Culture: Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic and Imperial, -800--100.
Vol. editors: Jonathan Burgess (University of Toronto), Giacomo Fedeli (University of Exeter), Emily Kneebone (University of Nottingham), Vaios Liapis (Open University of Cyprus), Elodie Paillard (University of Sydney), Mali Skotheim (Ashoka University), Laura Swift (The Open University)

Dates

First circulation or publication c. -410 - c. -406

Places

Ancient Greece (Country of Origin; Publication/ performance)

Genres and Modes

Drama
Tragedy

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Greek plays concern mythological stories and tragedians often performed their own versions of the myths which were told in epic and lyric poems. Euripides’

Meleagros

deals with the ancient tale of the hero Meleagros (or Meleager), the earliest detailed account of whose story is narrated by Phoenix in the Embassy to Achilles in Homer’

Iliad

(9.529-605). Euripides’ play is lost and we have only twenty-eight fragments (frr. 515-537 Kannicht; see also the editions of Nauck 1889, 525-531, of Jouan – Van Looy 2000, 406-411, of Collard – Cropp 2008, 614-616 and of Francisetti Brolin 2018). The date is uncertain (see further below).

The Myth

The Myth

Meleagros is one of the sons of Oeneus, king of Calydon, who insults Artemis when he forgets to make a sacrifice to her. Because she is

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Citation: Francisetti Brolin, Sonia. "Meleager". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 24 July 2018 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=38836, accessed 23 April 2024.]

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