PREFACE

FOR the rather late appearance of this volume the nature of its contents will perhaps in some degree be accepted as an excuse. It includes two texts of more than usual importance and interest, the new fragments of Sophocles and the Life of Euripides biography of the playwright Euripides by Satyrus. In the reconstruction and elucidation of these I have again been most fortunate in obtaining the invaluable aid of Professor U. von Wilamowitz-Möllendorff. I am also under considerable obligations, more particularly with regard to the Sophoclean fragments, to Professor Gilbert Murray. The proof-sheets of the non-literary documents were seen by Professor U. Wilcken, whom I have to thank for some very useful comments and suggestions. Occasional contributions kindly made by other scholars are acknowledged elsewhere.

A small edition of the fragments of the Ichneutae The Tracking Satyrs, a play by Sophocles and Eurypylus a lost tragedy by Sophocles is in preparation, and will be issued by the Clarendon Press in the course of a few weeks.

ARTHUR S. HUNT.

Queen’s College, Oxford,
May, 1912.