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‘O Ancient Argos of the Land’: Euripides, Electra1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

M. W. Haslam
M. W. Haslam
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University College London
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Extract

Neither can stand. ‘Argos of the land’ (or, ‘of land’) is nonsense, and even if it were not, is absurd as an apostrophe of the River Inachus. ‘a plain’, indistinguishable from is similarly impossible: the audience would be baffled; in 6 has to be the first occurrence of the vox; ‘streams’ cannot be apposed to a ‘plain’, even if could have been understood as meaning this.

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Research Article
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , May 1976 , pp. 1 - 2
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1976

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2 Some of these, like Eur. El.1, are ‘hanging’: so too the initia of the Alcestis and the Andromache (where read with VP and Hermann). A semantic distinction is to be made between nom. and voc. in tragedy (despite the evident metrical expediency of the nom.). It is true that nom. is occasionally found where voc. might have been expected (e.g. with , Aesch. Ag.508–9, fr.14012, Soph. Phil. 1453–5; not vice versa); but transition from exclamation to address is to be recognized in such places as Soph. El.1354–5, Ant. 1284–5, Trach.1040–1, Phil. 530–1, 1348, Eur. Alc. 568–70, Andr.1186–7, cf. Aesch. P. V. 88–92. The voc. at Eur. El. 54, must be acknowledged to be anomalous.