Compiled by

Hanna Roisman
&
Celia Luschnig

* Especially recommended (for both content and availability) for undergraduate reading.

(1) Editions, Commentaries, Translations, and Other Reading Helps:

Allen, James T. and Gabriel Italie, A Concordance to Euripides, Groningen: Bouma’s Boekhuis N. V., 1970.

Arrowsmith, William (tr.), Euripides, Alcestis, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1974

Bayfield, M. A., The Alcestis of Euripides (edition with commentary and vocabulary), London: Macmillan, 1930.

*Beye, Charles Rowan (tr.), Alcestis by Euripides: A Translation with Commentary, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1974.

*Conacher, D. J., Euripides Alcestis (edition with translation and commentary), Warminster: Aris and Phillips, 1988.

*Dale, A. M., (ed.), Euripides Alcestis, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1954.

Diggle, James, Euripidis Fabulae I, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983.

Earle, Mortimer Lamson, Euripides’ Alcestis, London: Macmillan, 1894 (repr. 1899).

Garzya, Antonius (ed.), Euripides, Alcestis, Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1983. (See page x for a list of editions.)

*Goodwin, William Watson and Charles Burton Gulick, Greek Grammar, Boston: Ginn and Company, 1930.

Hamilton, Richard with Michael W. Haslam, Euripides, Alcestis, Bryn Mawr: Bryn Mawr Commentaries, 1980.

Lattimore, Richmond, Alcestis, in Euripides I of The Complete Greek Tragedies, edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955.

Luschnig, C. A. E., An Introduction to Ancient Greek, New York: Scribners, 1975; reprinted, Prentice Hall, 1992.

___, (tr.), Alcestis, DIOTIMA: http://www.uky.edu/AS/Classics/alcestis.html, 1999.

*McDonald, Marianne, A Semilemmatized Concordance to Euripides’ Alcestis, Irvine: TLG Publications, 1977.

Murray, Gilbert, Euripidis Fabulae I, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1902.

Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin (tr.), in Ruby Blondell, Mary-Kay Gamel, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Bella (Vivante) Zweig, Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides, New York & London: Routledge, 1999.

Schwartz, Eduard, Scholia in Euripidem II, Berlin, 1891 (reprinted 1966,): Walter de Gruyter.

(2) Useful Links:

The Perseus Project: a source for Greek texts, translations, lexica, reference grammars, archaeological sites, maps, and art and much more.

Diotima: a source for the study of women in antiquity.

Didaskalia: ancient theatre and production of Greek plays.

(3) General Works on Greek Tragedy and updates 

(4) Literary Studies:

Aélion, Rachel, Euripide, héritier d’Eschyle, Paris: Société d’édition "Les Belles lettres", 1983 (2 volumes).

Ahl, Frederick, "Admetus Deuteragonistes," Colby Quarterly 33 (1997): 9-25.

Ahl, Frederick, and Hanna M. Roisman, The Odyssey Re-Formed, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996.

Albini, Umberto, "L’Alcesti di Euripide," Maia 13 (1961):3-29.

Alexiou, Margaret, The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974.

*Arrowsmith, William, "A Greek Theater of Ideas," Arion 2.3 (1963):32-56.

*Barlow, Shirley, The Imagery of Euripides: A Study of the Dramatic Use of Pictorial Language, London: Methuen, 1971; reprinted Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 1986.

Barnes, Hazel, "Greek Tragicomedy," in Wilson, 1968.

Barrett, W. S., Euripides, Hippolytos, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1964.

Bassi, Karen, "The Actor as Actress in Euripides’ Alcestis," Women in Theatre, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989:19-30.

Beekes, Robert, S. P., "‘You Can Get New Children...’: Turkish and other parallels to ancient Greek ideas in Herodotus, Thucydides, Sophocles and Euripides," Mnemosyne 39 (1986):225-239.

Bell, J. M., "Euripides’ Alkestis: A Reading," Emerita 48 (1980):43-75.

Bergson, Lief, "Randbemerkungen zur Alkestis des Euripides," Eranos 83 (1985):7-22.

Betts, G. G., "The Silence of Alcestis," Mnemosyne 18 (1965): 181-2.

*Beye, Charles Rowan, "Alcestis and her Critics," GRBS 2 (1959): 109-27.

*___, (tr.), Alcestis by Euripides: A Translation with Commentary, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1974.

Blumenthal, H. J., "Euripides, Alcestis 285ff. and the Authenticity of Antigone 905ff.," CR n.s. 24 (1974):174-5.

Boedeker, Deborah, "Euripides’ Medea and the Vanity of 7?'?3," CP 86 (1991):95-112.

*des Bouvrie, Synnřve, Women in Greek Tragedy: An Anthropological Approach, Symbolae Osloenses suppl. 27, Oslo: Norwegian University Press, 1990.

Bowra, C. M., "Orpheus and Eurydice," CQ 2 ns (1952):113-126.

Bradley, Edward M., "Admetus and the Triumph of Failure in Euripides’ Alcestis," Ramus 9 (1980):112-127.

Burgess, Dana L., Late Euripidean Narrative, Bryn Mawr dissertation, 1984 (Univ. Microfilms 8419984).

Burkert, Walter, "Greek Tragedy and Sacrificial Ritual," GRBS 7 (1966):87-121.

Burnett, Anne Pippin, "The Virtues of Admetus," CP 60 (1965):240-55.

*___, Catastrophe Survived: Euripides’ Plays of Mixed Reversal, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.

*Buxton, R. G. A., "Euripides’ Alkestis: Five Aspects of an Interpretation," Papers given at a Colloquium on Greek Tragedy in Honour of R. P. Winnington-Ingram, Lyn Rodley (ed.), London: Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 1987:17-31.

*Castellani, Victor, "Notes on the Structure of Euripides’ Alcestis," AJP 100 (1979):487-96.

Clement, Paul A., "The Cults of Pherae and the Artemis Pheraea Goddess," AJA 36 (1932):40-41.

Collard, C., M. J. Cropp, K. H. Lee, Euripides, Selected Fragmentary Plays, Volume I, Warminster: Aris and Phillips, 1995.

*Conacher, D. J., Euripidean Drama: Myth, Theme and Structure, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1967.

___, "Some Questions of Probability and Relevance in Euripidean Drama," Maia 24 (1972):199-207.

___, "Rhetoric and Relevance in Euripidean Drama," AJP 102 (1981):3-25.

___, "Structural Aspects of Euripides’ Alcestis," Greek Poetry and Philosophy: Studies in Honour of Leonard Woodbury (ed. by Douglas Gerber) Scholars Press 1984:73-81.

*Cropp, Martin , E. Fantham and S. Scully, Greek Tragedy and its Legacy: Essays presented to D. J. Conacher, Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1986.

Dale, A. M., "The Creation of Dramatic Characters," Collected Papers, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969:272-280.

Diano, Carlo Alberto, "L’Alcesti di Euripide," Euripide, Letture critiche, edited by Oddone Longo, Milan: Mursia, 1976:70-78.

Donlan, Walter, "The Unequal Exchange between Glaucus and Diomedes in Light of the Homeric Gift Economy," Phoenix 43 (1989):1-15.

Drew, D.L., "Euripides’ ‘Alcestis’," AJP 52 (1931): 295-319.

Dunn, F.M., Tragedy’s End: Closure and Innovation in Euripidean Drama, New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

*Dyson, M., "Alcestis’ Children and the Character of Admetus," JHS 108 (1988):13-23.

Easterling, P. E., "Constructing the Heroic" in Christopher Pelling, Greek Tragedy and the Historian, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997:21-37.

Ehrenberg, Victor, The People of Aristophanes: A Sociology of Old Attic Comedy, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1951 reprinted New York: Schocken Books, 1962.

Elferink, L. J., "The Beginning of Euripides’ Alcestis," Acta Classica 25 (1982):43-50.

Euben, J. Peter (ed.), Greek Tragedy and Political Theory, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.

Falkner, Thomas M., "Euripides and the Stagecraft of Old Age," The Many Forms of Drama, edited by Karelisa Hartigan, vol. 5 of the University of Florida Department of Classics Comparative Drama Conference Papers, Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1985:41-45.

___, The Poetics of Old Age in Greek Epic, Lyric, and Tragedy, Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.

Fitzgerald, G. J., "The Euripidean Heracles: An Intellectual and a Coward?" Mnemosyne 44 (1991):85-95.

Fowler. R. L., "The Rhetoric of Desperation," HSCP 91 (1987):5-24.

Fraenkel, E., Kleine Beiträge zur Klassischen Philologie, I, Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1964.

Franco, Carlo, "Una Statua per Admeto," MD 13 (1984):131-136.

von Fritz, Kurt, "Euripides’ Alkestis und ihre moderen Nachahmer und Kritiker," Antiker und Moderne Tragödie, Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1962: 256-321.

Garland, Robert, The Greek Way of Death, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1985.

*Garner, Richard K. "Death and Victory in Euripides’ Alcestis," CA 7 (1988):58-71.

Gellrich, Michelle, Tragedy and Theory: The Problem of Conflict since Aristotle, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988.

Golden, Leon, "Euripides’ Alcestis: Structure and Theme," CJ 66 (1970):116-125.

Golden, Mark, ‘Pais, "Child" and "Slave",’ L’Antiquité Classique (1985):91-104.

Goldhill, Simon and Robin Osborne, Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Gounaridou, Kiki, Euripides and Alcestis: Speculations, Simulations, and Stories of Love in the Athenian Culture, Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1998.

*Gregory, Justina, "Euripides’ Alcestis," Hermes 107 (1979):259-270.

Griffith, Mark, "Euripides Alkestis 636-641," HSCP 82 (1978): 83-5.

de Grummond, W. W., "Heracles’ Entrance: An Illustration of Euripidean Method," Eranos 81 (1983):83-90.

Guépin, J.-P., The Tragic Paradox: Myth and Ritual in Greek Tragedy, Amsterdam: Hakkert, 1968.

Hadley, William Sheldon, The Alcestis of Euripides, Cambridge: Pitt Press, 1901.

*Halleran, Michael, "Alkestis redux," HSCP 86 (1982):51-3.

___, Stagecraft in Euripides, Totowa, NJ: Barnes and Noble, 1985.

___, "Text and Ceremony at the Close of Euripides’ Alkestis," Eranos 86 (1988):123-129.

*Hamilton, Richard, "Prologue Prophecy and Plot in Four Plays of Euripides," AJP 99 (1978):277-302.

*Hartigan, Karelisa V., Ambiguity and Self-Deception: The Apollo and Artemis Plays of Euripides, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1990.

Hathorn, Richmond Y., Greek Mythology, Beirut: American University of Beirut, 1977.

Havelock, Eric A., "The Socratic Self as it is Parodied in Aristophanes’ Clouds," YCS 22 (1972):1-18.

Heath, Malcolm, The Poetics of Greek Tragedy, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987.

Henderson, Jeffrey, "Women and the Athenian Dramatic Festivals," TAPA 121 (1991): 133-47.

Henderson, Luke, Music of Ancient Greece, Oxford, OH: American Classical League, 1999.

Herzfeld, Michael, The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.

Hourmouziades, Nicolaos C., Production and Imagination in Euripides: Form and Function of the Scenic Space, Athens: Hell‘nik‘ AnthrÇpistik‘ Hetaireia, Seira 2, 1965.

Huddilston, John H., The Attitude of the Greek Tragedians toward Art, London: Macmillan, 1898.

*Humphreys, Sarah C., "Death and Time," chapter 7 of The Family, Women and Death, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983:145-164.

Italie, G., "De Euripide Aeschyli Imitatore," Mnemosyne 4.3 (1950):177-82.

Jens, Walter, Die Bauformen der Griechischen Tragödie, Munchen: W. Fink, 1971.

*Jones, D. M., "Euripides’ Alcestis," CR 62 (1948):50-55.

de Jong, Irene J. F., "Three Off-Stage Characters in Euripides," Mnemosyne 43 (1990):1-21.

Ketterer, Robert C., "Machines for the Suppression of Time: Statues in Suor Angelica, The Winter’s Tale, and Alcestis," Comparative Drama (Kalamazoo) 24 (1990):3-23.

*Kott, Jan, "The Veiled Alcestis," The Eating of the Gods: An Interpretation of Greek Tragedy (translated by B. Taborski and E. J. Czerwinski), London, 1970:78-108; reprinted New York: Random House, 1973.

Krumeich, Ralf, Nikolaus Pechstein, Bernd Seidensticker, eds., Das griechische Satyrspiel. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1999.

Lattimore, Richmond, Introduction to his translation of Alcestis, in Euripides I of The Complete Greek Tragedies, edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955.

Lawrence, M., "The Velletri Sarcophagus," AJA 69 (1965):207-222.

Lesky, Albin, Alkestis, der Mythus und das Drama, Vienna: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1925.

___, "Der angeklagte Admet," Maske und Kothurn 10 (1964):203-216, reprinted in Gesammelte Schriften, Berne and Munich: Francke, 1966:281-294.

Lesser, Wendy, His Other Half: Men Looking at Women through Art, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991.

*Lloyd, Michael, "Euripides’ Alcestis," G&R 32 (1985) 119-131.

___, The Agon in Euripides, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.

Lloyd-Jones, Sir Hugh, Greek Epic, Lyric, and Tragedy: The Academic Papers of Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Lombard, D. B., "Aspects of !3)SE in Euripides," Acta Classica 28 (1985):5-12.

Loraux, Nicole (tr. A. Foster), Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987.

Lorch, Lavinia E., "The Lyrics of the Alcestis: Dramatic Survival in a Drama of Ambiguity," Helikon 28 (1988):69-127.

Luschnig, C. A. E., "Euripides’ Alcestis and the Athenian oi)=koj," Dioniso 60 (1990):9-39.

___, "Interiors: Imaginary Spaces in Alcestis and Medea," Mnemosyne 45 (1992):19-44.

___, "Playing the Others: The Mythological Confusions of Admetus," Scholia 1 n.s. (1992):12-27.

* ___, The Gorgon’s Severed Head: Studies of Alcestis, Electra, and Phoenissae, Leiden: Brill, 1995.

___, "Admetus the Artist"

McCoughey, "Talking about Greek Tragedy," Ramus 1 (1972):26-47.

McDermott, Emily A., Euripides’ Medea: the Incarnation of Disorder, University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1989.

McDonald, Marianne, Terms for Happiness in Euripides, University of California (Irvine) dissertation, 1975 (Univ. Microfilms 76-7241).

*Michelini, Ann Norris, Euripides and the Tragic Tradition, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.

Mills, Suzanne P., Euripides’ Medeia: A Study in Dramatic Mythopoeia, Stanford dissertation, 1976 (Univ. Microfilms 77-7133).

Nielsen, Rosemary M., "Alcestis: A Paradox in Dying," Ramus 5 (1976):92-102.

Neuberg, Matt, "How Like a Woman: Antigone’s ‘Inconsistency’," CQ 40 (1990):54-76

Ogle, M. B., "The House-Door in Greek and Roman Religion and Folklore," AJP 32 (1911):251-71.

*O’Higgins, Dolores, "Above Rubies: Admetus’ Perfect Wife," Arethusa 26 (1993):77-98.

*Padel, Ruth, "Women: Model for Possession by Greek Daemons," in Averil Cameron and Amelie Kuhrt (edd.), Images of Women in Antiquity, London: Croom Helm,1983:3-19.

*___, "Making Space Speak" in Winkler and Zeitlin, 1990: 336-365.

*Padilla, Mark, "Gifts of Humiliation: Charis and Tragic Experience in Alcestis," AJP 121 (2000): 179-211.

Paduano, Guido, La formazione del mondo ideologico e poetico di Euripide: Alcesti-Medea, Pisa: Nistri-Lischi, 1968.

*Parry, Hugh, The Lyric Poems of Greek Tragedy, Toronto; Sarasota: Samuel Stevens, 1978.

Pechstein, Nikolaus, Euripides Satyrographos: Ein Kommentar zu den Euripideischen Satyrspielfragmenten, Stuttgart und Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1998.

Phelan, V., Two Ways of Life and Death: Alcestis and the Cocktail Party, New York: Garland Publishing, 1990.

Poliakoff, Michael, "Euripides Alkestis 1029-32," Mnemosyne 35 (1982):141-3.

Powell, Anton (ed.), Euripides, Women, and Sexuality, London and New York: Routledge, 1990.

Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin, Anxiety Veiled: Euripides and the Traffic in Women, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993.

Rehm, Rush, The !'S; and the Audience: A Study of Euripides’ Medea, Heracles, and Ion, Stanford dissertation, 1985 (Univ. Microfilms 86-02530).

___, "Medea and the Logos of the Heroic," Eranos 87 (1989):97-115.

*___, "The Bride from the Grave," Marriage to Death: the Conflation of Wedding and Funeral Rituals in Greek Tragedy, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994:84-96.

Roberts, Deborah H., Apollo and his Oracles in the Oresteia, Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1984, Hypomnemata 78.

*Robkin, A. L. H., "That Magnificent Flying Machine: On the Nature of the Mechane of the Theatre of Dionysos at Athens," Archaeological News 8 (1979):1-6.

Riemer, Peter, Die Alkestis des Euripides: Untersuchungen zur tragischen Form, Frankfurt am Main: Athenaeum, 1990.

Rivier, André "Sur un motif de l’Alceste d’Euripide (1966)" Études de Littérature Grecque, Geneva: Droz, 1975:93-100.

___, "En Marge d’Alceste et de quelques interprétations récentes" (1972-3), reprinted in Études de Littérature Grecque, Geneva: Droz, 1975:101-138.

___, Essai sur Le Tragique d’Euripide (2nd edition) Paris: Diffusion De Boccard, 1975.

Roisman, Hanna M., Loyalty in Early Greek Epic and Tragedy, Königstein/Ts.: Anton Hain, 1984.

___, "Helen and Penelope," Bamah 101 (1985): 116-125 (in Hebrew).

___, "Eumaeus and Odysseus - a covert Self-Revelation," ICS 15 (1990) 215-38.

___, Nothing Is As It Seems, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.

___, "Teiresias and Obi-Wan: Outside the Scope of the Plot," NECJ 26.4 (1999): 23-35.

*___, "Meter and Meaning," NECJ 27 (2000): 182-199.

Rosenmeyer, Thomas G., The Masks of Tragedy, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1963.

Rosenmeyer, Thomas G., M. Ostwald, J. W. Halporn, The Meters of Greek and Latin Poetry, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980.

Said, Suzanne, "L’Espace D’Euripide," Dioniso 59.2 (1989), 107-136.

Sale, William, Existentialism and Euripides: Sickness, Tragedy, and Divinity in the Medea, the Hippolytus, and the Bacchae. Berwick, Victoria, Australia: Aureal Publications, 1977.

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Schein, Seth L., "The Cassandra Scene in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon," G&R 29 (1982): 11-16.

___, M48\" in Euripides’ Alcestis, Metis 3 (1988):179-206.

Schwartz, Ella, Aspects of Orpheus in Classical Literature and Mythology, Harvard dissertation, 1984.

Schwinge, Ernst-Richard, Die Stellung der Trachinierinnen im Werk des Sophokles, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1962. Hypomnemata 1.

___, "Zwei sprachliche Bemerkungen zu Euripides’ Alkestis," Glotta 48 (1970):36-39.

Scodel, Ruth, "ADMHTOU LOGOS and the Alcestis," HSCP 83 (1979), 51-62.

Scully, S. E., "Some Issues in the Second Episode of Euripides’ Alcestis" (in Cropp et al.):135-148.

Seaford, Richard (ed.), Euripides Cyclops, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.

Seeck, Gustav Adolf, Unaristotelische Untersuchungen zu Euripides: Ein motivanalytischer Kommentar zur ‘Alkestis’, Heidelberg: C. Winter, 1985.

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___, Orpheus: The Myth of the Poet, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.

___, "Cold Delight: Art, Death, and the Transgression of Genre in Euripides’ Alcestis," in The Scope of Words: In Honor of Albert S. Cook, edited by P. Baker, S. Webster Goodwin, and G. Handwerk, New York: P. Lang, 1991.

*___, "Euripides’ Alcestis: Female Death and Male Tears," CA 11 (1992):142-158.

* ___, Euripides and the Poetics of Sorrow: Art, Gender, and Commemoration in Alcestis, Hippolytus, and Hecuba, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1993.

Seidensticker, Bernd, Palintonos Harmonia: Studien zu komischen Elementen in der griechischen Tragödie, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1982 Hypomnemata 72.

Seidler, V. J., Unreasonable Men: Masculinity and Social Theory, London and New York: Routledge, 1994.

Sheppard, J. T., "Admetus, Verrall, and Professor Myres," JHS 39 (1919):37-47.

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___, Tragic Drama and the Family, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.

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Smith, Wesley, "The Ironic Structure in Alcestis," Phoenix 14 (1960):127-45 (reprinted in Wilson, 1969:37-56).

Stanton, G. R., "Fili/a and ceni/a in Euripides’ ‘Alkestis’," Hermes 118 (1990):42-54.

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___, "The Relation between Tragedies and Fourth Place Plays in Three Instances," Arethusa 4 (1971):55-73.

Sutton, Robert F., The Interaction between Men and Women Portrayed on Attic Red Figure Pottery, 1981 (Univ. Microfilms 8125624).

*Thury, Eva M., "Euripides’ Alcestis and the Athenian Generation Gap," Arethusa 21 (1988):197-214.

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Warden, John (ed.), Orpheus: The Metamorphoses of a Myth, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982.

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*___, The Tragedies of Euripides, London: Methuen, 1967.

Westlake, H.D., Thessaly in the Fourth Century, London: Methuen, 1935.

*Wiles, David, Tragedy in Athens, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

*___, Greek Theatre Performance: An Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

*Wilson, John Richard, Twentieth Century Interpretations of Euripides’ Alcestis, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall , 1968.

*Winkler, John J. and Froma I. Zeitlin, (edd.), Nothing to Do with Dionysos?, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.

Winnington-Ingram, R. P., "Euripides: Poi‘t‘s Sophos," Arethusa 2 (1969):127-42.

Wood, M., "Alcestis on Roman Sarcophagi," AJA 82 (1978):499-510.

*Zeitlin, Froma, "Playing the Other: Theater, Theatricality and the Feminine in Greek Drama," in Winkler and Zeitlin (1990): 63-93.