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Hecuba
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Scholarship
Euripides: Hecuba: Introduction, Text, and Commentary by Justina Gregory
A comprehensive commentary on the play, keyed to the original Greek text, published by Oxford University Press in 1999.
Wild Justice: A Study of Euripides’ Hecuba by Judith Mossman
A scholarly discussion of the play published by Clarendon in 1995. This edition explores various aspects of the play’s structure, context, and characterization, especially the characterization of Hecuba.
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