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The Final Lines of Sophocles, King Oedipus (1524–30)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Brian Arkins
Brian Arkins
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University College, Galway
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Extract

ῶ φάτρασ θῄβησ ἔνοικοι, λεσσετ', οíδíπονσ ὄδε

ὄσ τά κλεíν' αíνíγματ' ἤδει και κράτιστοσ ἦν άνἠρ,

οὕ τíσ οὕ ζἠλῴ πολιτῶν ταῖσ τύχαισ ἐπἐβλεπεν,

εíσ ὄντ' ἑκεíνην τἠν τελενταíαν íσεíν

ἠμἐραν ἐπισκοποῦντα μνδἐν' ὄλβíζεη, πρíν άν

τἑρμα τού βíον περάσῃ μηδἑν ὰλγεινóν παθὡν.

Type
Shorter Notes
Information
The Classical Quarterly , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , December 1988 , pp. 555 - 558
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1988

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References

1 Ritter, F., Phitologus 17 (1861), 422–36, esp. 424–Google Scholar.

2 Teuffel, W., RhM 29 (1874), 505–9Google Scholar.

3 Dawe, R. D., Studies on the Text of Sophocles, i (Leiden, 1974), 266–73Google Scholar; id., Sophocles, Oedipus Rex (Cambridge, 1982), 247.

4 Also argued for by Calder, W. M. III, CPh 57 (1962), 224–7Google Scholar; Dodds, E. R., The Ancient Concept of Progress (Oxford, 1973), 77Google Scholar; Hester, D. A., Antichthon 7 (1973), 11–12CrossRefGoogle Scholar (who reverses his view at Antichthon 18 (1984), 12–23)Google Scholar.

5 Roberts, pp. 57, 58.

6 Roberts, pp. 59–60.

7 Roberts, p. 62.

8 Davies, M., Hermes 110 (1982), 268–77Google Scholar; Gellie, G., Ramus 15 (1986), 35–42CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

9 Dawe's translation at p. 247 of his edition (n. 3)- ‘an excellent fellow’ – obscures this point.

10 For the detail see Jebb, R. C., Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus (Cambridge, 1883), ad he. and pp. 309–10Google Scholar.

11 For this duality see Vernant, J. P., New Literary History 3 (1978), 475–501CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

12 For the interpretation of this see Jebb (n. 10), ad he.

13 Dawe at p. 247 of his edition.

14 Yeats, W. B., Collected Plays (London, 1982), 517Google Scholar.

15 Production opened August 12, 1987. Director: Frank Conway. Chorus: Michael Ford. For an assessment of this production see Arkins, B., Theatre Ireland 14 (1988), 22–3Google Scholar.

16 For the exodus of the Phoenissae see Conacher, D. J., Phoenix 21 (1967), 92–101CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Mueller-Goldingen, C., Untersuchungen zu den Phoenissen des Euripides (Stuttgart, 1985), 226–66Google Scholar. In questioning the authenticity of lines 1737-end of that play Conacher notes (95; 100–1) that lines 1758–63 constitute either a direct interpolation or an imitation of King Oedipus 1524–30; Mueller-Goldingen (262–6) regards Phoenissae 1758–63 as an interpolation, asserting (262) ‘Dass auch die Trochaeen 1758–63 zu athetieren sind, duerfte sicher sein’.