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Euripides (c.480–406 bc) was a Greek playwright, and Hecuba (written around 424 bc) is a tragedy which describes the grief of the eponymous Queen of Troy at the death of her daughter Polyxena, and her brutal revenge for the murder of her son Polydorus. This is a good example of a book printed with large margins to enable students to make annotations. Here we see the Greek text of the play annotated in both Latin and Greek in a sixteenth-century hand.

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Euripides, Hecuba (Paris, 1560),
Marsh's Library Exhibits,
accessed May 16, 2025,
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