Fragmentation in Ancient Greek Drama (Trends in Classics – Supplementary Volumes 84). Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. Pp. 719, illus. £136.50. 9783110621020

Questions of methodology are treated in part 1 of the volume, with various contributors offering an extensive overview of the state of the art with respect to tragic (Matthew Wright) and comic (Francesco Paolo Bianchi) fragments and the history of their transmission (Matthew Wright), as well as the methodological relevance of combining testimonia and fragments (Ralph M. Rosen, Francesco Paolo Bianchi, S. Douglas Olson). In some chapters, this interlacing relates to the order of the plays within a trilogy (Alan Sommerstein), or to the relationship between the treatment of a myth in a (selection of) fragment(s) and the retelling of the same story in other genres (Nikos Manousakis) and in the archaeological evidence (Anna Novokhatko). Others demonstrate how a closer look at fragments may in fact helpfully change our perspective on general and well-established assumptions about single textual readings (Andreas Bagordo), whole authors and generic categories (Serena Perrone), consolidated by means of critical editions and commentaries, ancient and modern.