Keeping the family close: A fresh look at P.Oxy. 2459 (Euripides, Oedipus)

P.Oxy. XXVII 2459, held at the British Library, comes from a papyrus roll of Euripides’ Oedipus assigned to the fourth century AD.1 It was fi rst published by E. G. Turner as fi ve separate fragments (now E. frr. 540– 540b Kannicht). The attribution was based upon the fi rst of the fi ve, which over...