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grbs-1571	Hanink, Johanna	The Life of the Author in the Letters of “Euripides”	2010	28	.pdf	application/pdf	10327	402	55	The “apologetic” Tendenz of the letters may even constitute the texts’ very raison d’être: we know, for example, of a rhetorical exercise in which a student wrote a defence of Euripides on the charge of impiety (see n.74 below), and it is plausible that the “assignment” of the anonymous letter-writer was to de- fend Euripides’ decision to leave Athens. This was an enormous edition of Euripides’ works which contained every scrap of Euripidean material—dramatic, fragmentary, and biographical —that Barnes had managed to unearth.2 In the course of pre- paring the volume, Barnes had got wind that Richard Bentley believed that the epistles attributed by many ancient manu- scripts to Euripides were spurious; he therefore wrote to Bentley asking him to elucidate the grounds of his doubt.	cache/grbs-1571.pdf	txt/grbs-1571.txt