1694 EURIPIDES TRADEGIES antique VELLUM BOUND FOLIO in GREEK & LATIN

Euripides. Quæ Extant Omnia. Cambridge, 1694 Greek text with Latin translation and notes; edited by Joshua Barnes. 2 engraved portraits. [8], lvi, 330, [2], 529, [43] pages. Folio: 8 by 13"Original vellum stamped in blind; front joint split and frayed, generally clean and sound internally.Text in Greek and Latin==================================================Euripides[a] (c.?480 – c.?406 BC) was a Greek tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, but the Suda says it was ninety-two at most. Of these, eighteen or nineteen have survived more or less complete (Rhesus is suspect).There are many fragments (some substantial) of most of his other plays. More of his plays have survived intact than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, partly because his popularity grew as theirs declined—he became, in the Hellenistic