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The End of Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus: The Sceptical Case Restated

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 December 2014

David Kovacs
David Kovacs*
Affiliation:
University of Virginia
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Abstract:

An earlier article of mine, Kovacs (2009a), discussed OT 1424–1530, whose genuineness was impugned most recently by Dawe (2001; 2006). I argued that 1424–67 (which I call A) are genuine, but that 1468–1530 (which I call B) are spurious. Sommerstein (2011), accepting my defence of A, undertook the defence of all but a few lines of B as well, dismantling much of my case against it and adding the argument that the transmitted ending mirrors the play's beginning and is therefore presumptively Sophoclean. The present article, in part a reply to Sommerstein's reply, restates some of my earlier arguments and also presents new evidence for the spuriousness of B.

Keywords

SophoclesOedipus Tyrannusinterpolationstagecraft
Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 134 , 2014 , pp. 56 - 65
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 2014 

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