Thyestes (Euripides)

Thyestes (Ancient Greek: Θυέστης) is a lost tragedy by Euripides. The play may have concerned the myth of Thyestes' seduction of Aerope, the wife of his brother Atreus, and Atreus' subsequent revenge on Thyestes, killing his children and serving them to him at a feast.^[1]

Although agreed to be lost, alleged fragments of the play had been described by Pellegrino Ernetti [fr] through a supposed Chronovisor machine. The claims have been largely dismissed.^[2]

Translations and Editions

• Euripides, Fragments: Aegeus-Meleager, edited and translated by Christopher Collard and Martin Cropp, Loeb Classical Library No. 504, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-674-99625-0. Online version at Harvard University Press. pp. 428–437.
• Tragicorum Graecorum fragmenta. 2a ed., vol. 5: Euripides ed. E. C. Kopff. Goettingae 2004.

References

1. Conacher, D. J. (1970). "Review: The Tragedies of Euripides by T. B. L. Webster". Phoenix. 24 (1). doi:10.2307/1087405. JSTOR 1087405.
2. Pilkington, Mark (8 June 2005). "Do the time warp". The Guardian. Far out Science. Retrieved 4 August 2022.

External links

• Fragmenta