Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, Volume 3: With Critical Notes, Commentary and Translation in English Prose

Cover......Page 1
Frontmatter......Page 6
PREFACE......Page 10
Contents......Page 12
§ 1. Earliest trace of the story......Page 14
§ 2. Aeschylean situation--contrast with the Sophoclean......Page 15
§ 3. Analysis of the play......Page 16
§ 4. Unity of motive. The mode of the catastrophe. The dramatic blemish......Page 22
§ 5. A suggested explanation......Page 24
§ 6. The question raised by the play......Page 25
§ 7. What is the moral intended?......Page 26
§ 8. The character of Creon's edict......Page 27
§ 9. The edict in its political aspect......Page 28
§ 10. Antigone's position......Page 30
§ 11. The attitude of the Chorus......Page 31
§ 13. The character of Antigone......Page 32
§ 14. Distinctive merit of the portraiture......Page 37
§ 15. The character of Creon......Page 40
§ 16. Other treatments of the story. Euripides. Attius. Statius. Alfieri......Page 42
§ 17. Vase-paintings......Page 44
§ 18. Mendelssohn's music......Page 46
§ 19. Date of the play. The strategia of Sophocles......Page 47
§ 20. Had the play any bearing upon the poet's appointment?......Page 50
§ 21. Internal evidence for an early date......Page 52
§ 22. Place of the play in the series of the poet's works......Page 53
§ 23. The Theban plays--not properly a trilogy......Page 54
§ 2. Readings due to the Scholia......Page 56
§ 3. Points bearing on the relation of L to the other MSS......Page 57
§ 6. Emendations......Page 58
§ 7. Editions, etc......Page 59
METRICAL ANALYSIS......Page 60
CORRIGENDA......Page 81
ANCIENT ARGUMENTS TO THE PLAY; DRAMATIS PERSONAE; STRUCTURE......Page 82
TEXT......Page 89
APPENDIX......Page 322
INDICES......Page 348