Fragmentary greek drama

A series edited by Monica Centanni and Paolo B. Cipolla. Fragmentary Greek Drama is proposed as a useful and up-to-date tool for scholars interested in the history of Attic drama, with particular reference to the lost dramas. In the context of the study of ancient drama, there is a need for a systematic project focusing on those dramas, especially (but not only) those of the three great tragedians, that have not survived in the medieval tradition, but of which a significant number of fragments have come down to us, allowing us to reconstruct, even hypothetically, their plots. Each volume will be conceived as a short monograph and will contain: – a mythographical introduction analysing the sources of the myth and the different versions; – a section devoted to the drama, focusing on what can be deduced from the ancient sources; – the Greek text of the fragments, accompanied by a translation and commentary;\ – a section devoted to the iconographic evidence of the drama, where it exists, in particular vascular paintings, from which it is possible to reconstruct the plot or any scenes; – finally, a summary that integrates the data into a possible reconstructive hypothesis of the plot and other elements, such as the setting of the action, the characters and the identity of the chorus. The language of the monographs will preferably be English. Editorial programme 2024: 1. Monica Centanni, Paolo B. Cipolla, Sophocles' Laocoon. 2. Paolo B. Cipolla, Aeschylus' Satyric Prometheus. 3. Michele Di Bello, Euripides' Peliades.