The situation can be split into the following three points: 1. The tragedies were written in the ancient time by Euripides. And the manuscript collection L, which was edited in Medieval times, just included these tragedies. 2. When the tragedies were published at the ancient times, the 10 “select plays”, which contain some of Euripides’ best-known works, were added commentaries. The same 10 plays were also included in other Medieval manuscript collections. 3. The other eight plays were not added commentaries. So it means that when the other 8 plays were written in the ancient time, nobody added commentaries. So they do not contain any ancient commentaries. Therefore, even they were later included in some Medieval collections of manuscripts, they still don’t have any ancient commentaries. So E is correct. - Some of the select plays include Euripides’
best-known works doesn’t means that these 10 are the whole collection of his best-known works. So A is incorrect. - The presence of ancient commentaries in the
select plays is not because of the fame of these plays. The paragraph does not provide any clue about the reason why there are ancient commentaries in these plays. - The choice states another thing. “Written
about” means something like a book review. For example, when the plays were published, there maybe someone reviewing or evaluating the plays. But that is not the same as adding commentaries into the play, as mentioned in the paragraph. - This statement is too extreme. The paragraph
tells us that in the manuscript collection L, Medea is accompanied by commentaries and Medea also appears in other medieval manuscript collections. But it doesn’t tell us that in other medieval collections, Medea also appears together with the ancient commentaries.
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