Abstract
This paper focuses on the presumed existence of two versions of Medea and Heracles in the Euripidean corpus that circulated in antiquity. After a brief review of the main papyrological evidence, namely P.Oxy. LXXVI 5093 for the Medea and P.Hibeh II 179 for the Heracles, I discuss the implications of adding another Medea and another Heracles to the Euripidean corpus in the light of the extant ancient testimonies on the number of works in Euripides’ oeuvre. Moreover, I examine the clues provided by the headings of the hypotheses of the extant Medea and the extant Heracles as preserved in P.IFAO inv. PSP 248 and P.Oxy. LXXXI 5284. On these grounds, I argue that the supposed evidence for the existence of two distinct Medea and two distinct Heracles plays should not be interpreted as evidence of double authorial versions.
Acknowledgments
A version of this paper was presented at the conference Greek Drama V, held at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, in early July 2017. I would like to thank the organisers, Hallie and Toph Marshall, and the participants in the session “Papyri” for useful remarks, as well as Daniela Colomo for commenting on an earlier draft. This article was completed during the tenure of a postdoctoral position at the University of Göttingen, Germany, within the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)-funded Collaborative Research Centre 1136 Bildung und Religion, sub-project “Gods and Heroes in the Classroom. Myth, Religion and Education in Graeco-Roman Egypt”.
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