Canadian classicist Cropp is honored by contributors (identified only by name but presumably colleagues) with essays on the extant plays and fragments mostly by Euripides, and how they have
influenced art down the ages. Their topics include Antiope and the quiet life, an experiment in reconstruction from fragments using the lost Phoenissae, weaving women's tales in Ion, the first
stasimon of Trojan Women, coins and character in Euripides, myth and iconography in Rhesus, choruses and other surviving tragic bystanders in the plays of Sophocles, the role of Apollo in
Aristophanes' Oedipus Tyrannus, whether the wasp's anger is democratic, Telephus at Rome, and Greek tragedy and a New Zealand poet. Annotation 穢2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
