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The Sleep of Philoctetes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

D. M. Jones
D. M. Jones
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Birkbeck College, London.
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The Classical Review , Volume 63 , Issue 3-4 , December 1949 , pp. 83 - 85
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1949

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page 83 note 1 Il. xiv. 230–1.

page 84 note 1 It is Hypnos' brother Thanatos whom he is wont to summon (Soph. Phil. 797–8).

page 84 note 2 Cf. Campbell, ad loc; Hesych.; Phot. s.v. μεγάλη; Stepn. Byz. s.v. Λ⋯μνоσ.

page 84 note 3 Leaf ad Il. xiv. 230; Gruppe, , Griech. Mythologie, ii. 929, n. 3Google Scholar.

page 84 note 4 Cf. Reinhardt, , Sophokles, p. 192Google Scholar: ‘… das leise, sogenannte “Schlaflied”, das in Wahrheit aber, trotz der sanften Anrufe des Hypnos, alles andere als ein Schlaflied ist, vielmehr ein Lied der leisen, aber umso stärkeren Verführung zum Verrat.’

page 84 note 5 In Il. xiv. 231 Hypnos has his common appellation ‘brother of Thanatos’. Are there echoes of this too in and near the lyric? 797–8 have been mentioned; in 819–22 Philoctetes begs the earth to receive him in death, but Neoptolemus observes that it is sleep which is coming upon him. In 861, in the epode of the lyric, the Chorus describes Philoctetes in the words τις ὡς Ἀΐδᾳ π⋯ρα κε⋯μενος.

page 85 note 1 Cf. Mazon, , Introd. à ľlliade, p. 196, n. 3Google Scholar.

page 85 note 2 Cf. Preller, , Griech. Mythologie4, i. 72, n. 2Google Scholar; Robert, C., Hermes, xix. 473Google Scholar.