The Play of Texts and Fragments ─ Essays in Honour of Martin Crapp

Canadian classicist Cropp is honored by contributors (identified only by name but presumably colleagues) with essays on the extant plays and fragments mostly by Euripides, and how they have influenced art down the ages. Their topics include Antiope and the quiet life, an experiment in reconstruction from fragments using the lost Phoenissae, weaving women's tales in Ion, the first stasimon of Trojan Women, coins and character in Euripides, myth and iconography in Rhesus, choruses and other surviving tragic bystanders in the plays of Sophocles, the role of Apollo in Aristophanes' Oedipus Tyrannus, whether the wasp's anger is democratic, Telephus at Rome, and Greek tragedy and a New Zealand poet. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

J.R.C. Cousland, Ph.D. (1991) in New Testament, University of St. Andrews, is Associate Professor of Christian Scriptures and Classical Religion and Mythology. He has published a variety of articles in these areas, as well as a volume examining The Crowds in the Gospel of Matthew (Brill, 2002).James R. Hume holds degrees from the universities of Calgary and Toronto, and is currently a Senior Instructor in the Department of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Calgary. His recent publications include numerous entries for the Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization.