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tive value of the markings. her assertions regularly being softened with
an appropriate "seems" or "appears"; and she concedes that certain
mysteries will probably never be resolve. Why, for instance, has
Racine left scarcely any record in the form of markings of his reading
of the Euripidean plays that served as his sources for Andromaque.
Iphigenie and Iphigenie en Tauride? Conversely, Euripides' Hippolytus
attracted the largest amount of marking. Both the Aldine and the
Stephanus editions are marked, and even the ancient scholia and Caspar
Stiblinus' commentary contained in the latter edition are marked. Phillippo's
analysis shows that the markings are fuller while Phaedra is
part of the action (lines 170-731 in Euripides); they thus corroborate
Racine's greater interest in the eponymous character of his Phedre than
in that of Euripides' Hippolytus.
The monograph is rounded out with a 28-page chapter of conclusions
and an appendix of the Euripidean passages marked by Racine.
GERALD SANDY
DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS. NEAR EASTERN AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
VANCOUVER, BC V6T IWS