Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, Volume 6: With Critical Notes, Commentary and Translation in English Prose

Cover......Page 1
Frontmatter......Page 6
PREFATORY NOTE......Page 10
CORRIGENDA......Page 11
Contents......Page 12
§ 1. The legend in Homer......Page 14
§ 2. Cyclic epics......Page 16
§ 3. Influence of Delphi. Purification from blood-guilt......Page 17
§ 5. Evidence from art......Page 20
§ 6. Literary evidence. First mention of Electra. Xanthus......Page 22
§ 7. Summary. Influence of Stesichorus on the dramatists......Page 26
§ 8. Pindar......Page 27
§ 9. Aeschylus. Analysis of the Choephori......Page 29
§ 10. The supernatural agency. Clytaemnestra. Orestes. Electra. Minor persons. The Chorus. The title `Choephori.'......Page 34
§ 11. The Electra of Sophocles. Analysis of the play......Page 37
§ 12. General comparison with the Choephori......Page 43
§ 13. The stain of matricide is ignored. Question thus raised......Page 45
§ 14. Character of Electra......Page 47
§ 15. Clytaemnestra. The Chorus......Page 48
§ 16. Supernatural agency......Page 50
§ 17. The Electra of Euripides. Analysis......Page 51
§ 18. Drift of Euripides--adverse to Apollo. His Orestes and Electra. General estimate of the play......Page 56
§ 19. Did it precede and influence the Electra of Sophocles? The openings of the two plays compared. Relation of Electra to Clytaemnestra. Argument from general probability. Conclusion......Page 57
§ 20. The Electra of Sophocles is one of his later plays. Internal evidence. Conclusion......Page 61
§ 21. Ancient repute of the play. Translation by Atilius......Page 62
§ 22. The Oreste of Voltaire.......Page 64
§ 23. The Oreste of Alfieri......Page 67
§ 24. Traces in art of the Aeschylean and Sophoclean plays......Page 69
§ 2. MSS......Page 72
§ 3. Scholia......Page 73
§ 4. The state of the text. Lacunae. Proposed transpositions. Interpolations......Page 74
§ 5. Editions......Page 76
METRICAL ANALYSIS......Page 77
ANCIENT ARGUMENTS TO THE PLAY; DRAMATIS PERSONAE; STRUCTURE......Page 98
TEXT......Page 103
APPENDIX......Page 302
INDICES......Page 324