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Euripides' Alcestis (Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture)

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This is an excellent edition of Euripides' Alcestis, including short critical essays, an excellent vocabulary, a brief tutorial on Greek poetic metre, and a commentary well-geared to new students. There seems to be some confusion about which edition of this book is which -- the Oklahoma press hardcover edition, at least, includes all these features plus the full text of the play.

The commentary includes vocabulary (in addition to the comprehensive vocabulary in the back) in a well-thought-out way intended to help the student as he or she proceeds through the text, beginning with extensive glosses of a large number of words and thinning them out over the course of the play. There's really no other edition to buy if you are new to Greek drama, except possibly the Jerram if you're really pressed for funds -- but this edition is vastly superior to that one, if for no other reason simply because of the quality of the printing, which will save the reader much eye strain compared to the older book.