Following Aeschylus (Seven Against Thebes) and Sophocles (Oedipus
the King, Euripides sought to treat the Theban myth in a new way in
his writing. The first pages of this manuscript, copied around the
end of the 15th century on paper, lay out the plot summary of the
work, call to mind the prophecy about Oedipus and the riddle of the
Sphinx, and then present the list of characters. The page following
the transcription of the work also presents a summary of
Sophocles's Oedipus the King and thus alludes to the relationship
between these two masterpieces of the ancient theater.
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e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
