Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, Volume 2: With Critical Notes, Commentary and Translation in English Prose

Cover......Page 1
Frontmatter......Page 6
PREFACE......Page 10
Contents......Page 12
CORRIGENDA......Page 13
Events of the interval between the plays......Page 14
2. Analysis of the play......Page 17
3. Relation of the Coloneus to the Tyrannus......Page 26
4. The Oedipus of this play......Page 27
5. The divine amend......Page 28
6. The curse on the sons......Page 29
7. The other characters......Page 30
8. The Oedipus-myth at Colonus......Page 31
9. The grave of Oedipus......Page 33
10. Oedipus and Attica......Page 34
Colonus Hippius......Page 35
12. Probable site of the grove......Page 39
13. The [GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA][GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA][GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU][GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA][GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO][GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO][GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH OXIA][GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA][GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU][GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA][GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA] [GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH PSILI][GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA][GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH OXIA][GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA]......Page 40
14. The secret tomb......Page 41
15. The [GREEK SMALL LETTER CHI][GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA][GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA][GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA][GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON][GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH PERISPOMENI][GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA] [GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH PSILI][GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA][GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH TONOS][GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA]......Page 42
16. Stage arrangements in the opening scene......Page 44
17. The Attic plays of Euripides......Page 45
18. The Coloneus ascribed to the poet's last years......Page 46
Its probable origin......Page 47
Supposed political bearings......Page 48
20. Character of the composition......Page 49
21. Conclusion......Page 51
1. The Laurentian MS. (L)......Page 52
2. Mode of reporting L......Page 54
3. Other MSS......Page 55
4. Supposed interpolations......Page 57
5. Conjectures......Page 59
6. Editions, commentaries, etc.......Page 61
METRICAL ANALYSIS......Page 64
ANCIENT ARGUMENTS TO THE PLAY; DRAMATIS PERSONAE; STRUCTURE......Page 90
TEXT......Page 99
APPENDIX......Page 362
INDICES......Page 384