The Lyric Metres of Euripidean Drama - Universidade de Coimbra

Parte I
I will always thank him; but I also thank him for his immense kindness and
hospitality: both he and his wife Sedwell made every visit to Cambridge
uniquely memorable.
I wish to make it absolutely clear, however, that my lists, scansions and
interpretations are not to be taken as having been ‘endorsed’ by any of these
scholars. Although what good points this book might possess are almost
certainly due to their suggested improvements, all shortcomings and errors
are mine alone.
At the University of Lisbon (where I taught Greek for twenty years and
where part of the material presented here began life as a doctoral thesis), friends
and colleagues too numerous to mention one by one helped and encouraged
me in many ways. That said, I particularly wish to single out the late Professor
Victor Jabouille, whose unstinting support I shall always remember.
In my new academic home, the University of Coimbra (which had already
celebrated its seven-hundredth anniversary when I first started making lists
of lyric cola), my new colleagues have proved generous providers of excellent
advice. Professors Maria de Fátima Sousa e Silva, Maria do Céu Fialho and
Delfim Leão did their utmost to turn the idea of this book into tangible reality.
For the welcoming friendliness with which I was received in Coimbra, I also
wish to thank Professor Maria Helena da Rocha Pereira (doyenne of Greek
scholarship in Portugal) and Professors José Ribeiro Ferreira, Francisco de
Oliveira, Nair Castro Soares, Carlos André, Carmen Soares, António Rebelo,
Margarida Miranda, José Luís Brandão, Carlota Urbano, Luísa de Nazaré
Ferreira, Paula Dias, Teresa Schiappa, Susana Pereira, Paulo Sérgio Ferreira,
Cláudia Cravo and Carla Gonçalves. I am also very grateful to Sofia Frade
and Nuno Jerónimo for the uncomplaining promptness with which they
photocopied bibliography in various libraries (in Portugal and in the UK).
Finally, a special word of thanks is due to Elisabete Cação and Nelson Ferreira,
whose help was invaluable in transmogrifying a thing of the past (piles of
printouts from long defunct computers and countless pages of handwritten
material) into this wonder of the future: a swish-looking hardback that is at
the same time a fully and freely downloadable book.
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F. L.
Coimbra
December 2011