Andromeda (Euripides)

Andromeda ( ancient Greek Ἀνδρομέδα ) is a tragedy by the Greek playwright Euripides , preserved in fragments , which dates back to 412 BC. Together with the play Helena on the occasion of Dionysia was premiered. The subject of the tragedy comes from the Perseus myth.

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Andromeda is said to be sacrificed to the sea ​​monster Keto, sent by Poseidon , for which she is chained to a rock. Perseus kills Keto, frees Andromeda and then wants to take her to his wife. During the wedding, Phineus , Andromeda's uncle and fiancée, appears and claims his right to marry. Perseus turns Phineus to stone with the head of Medusa and marries Andromeda.

expenditure

• Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta , Volume 5, pp. 392-404.
• Rainer Klimek-Winter: Andromeda tragedies. Sophocles, Euripides, Livius, Andronicus, Ennius, Accius . De Gruyter, Stuttgart / Leipzig 1993. ISBN 978-3-598-77470-6 , pp. 55-316. (Text with comment)

literature

• Frank Bubel: Euripides, Andromeda . Steiner, Stuttgart 1991. ( Palingenesia 34). ISBN 3-515-05813-3 .
• Udo Hetzner: Andromeda and Tarpeia . In: Contributions to Classical Philology , Issue 8. Anton Hain, Meisenheim am Glan 1963.
• Rainer Nickel : Lexicon of ancient literature . Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf / Zurich 1999. ( Online )