Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: A medieval manuscript called L contains all eighteen extant tragedies

A medieval manuscript called L contains all eighteen extant tragedies by the Greek playwright Euripides. Of these, ten called the “select plays,” are accompanied in L by ancient commentaries and also appear in other medieval manuscripts; this group includes some of Euripides’ best-known works, including theMedea . The other eight, which appear only in L, are called "alphabeticals", because they appear in alphabetical order, without commentary. TheElectra is one of the alphabetical.

Which of the following can be reliably concluded on the basis of the statements given?


A. Only Euripides’ best-known works are accompanied by ancient commentaries in extant medieval manuscripts.

B. The select plays are accompanied by ancient commentaries because they were the best known of Euripides’ works.

C. No commentaries were written about Euripides’Electra in ancient times.

D. Euripides’sMedea never appears in medieval manuscripts unaccompanied by ancient
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Statistics : Posted by KarishmaB • on 03 Jul 2008, 22:06 • Replies 14 • Views 54502

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