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Sophocles, Electra 610–11

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

N. B. Booth
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Polytechnic of North London

Extract

Jebb is right. The two lines are a comment by the Chorus; and they are a comment on the apparent shamelessness of the remarks which Electra has just been making about her mother. The dissentients have been deceived by two pseudo-problems, hitherto unexploded:

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Shorter Notes
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1977

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References

page 466 note 1 CR 64 (1950), 87–8, approved by Kells in his edition (Cambridge, 1972) So also Campbell, Kaibel, Kamerbeek.

page 466 note 2 CQ 50(1956), 38–9.Google Scholar

page 466 note 3 CQ 69 (1975), 309–11. There is even . more variation, since Blaydes suggested in 610.Google Scholar

page 467 note 1 See the latter part of my Sophocles Electra 1082–9’, RhMus 119 (1976), 127–33.Google Scholar