1 Haemon, discovered by his father Creon embracing the dead body of Antigone, drew his sword on him but missed his aim and Creon fled.
2 By Euripides. Polyphontes killed Cresphontes, king of Messenia, and gained possession of his kingdom and his wife, Merope. She had concealed her son, Aepytus, in Arcadia, and when he returned, seeking vengeance, she nearly killed him in ignorance but discovered who he was. He then killed Polyphontes and reigned in his stead.
3 In Tauris. See Aristot. Poet. 11.8, note.
4 Author and play unknown.
5 See Aristot. Poet. 13.7.
6 See Aristot. Poet. 9.8, note.
7 See Aristot. Poet. 6.24.
8 The meaning probably is "like the traditional person," e.g. Achilles must not be soft nor Odysseus stupid. Cf. Horace Ars Poet. 120 "famam sequere."
9 Aristotle has a personal distaste for this character on the ground that Euripides made him a creature meaner than the plot demands.
10 A dithyramb by Timotheus. Cf. Aristot. Poet. 26.3.
11 A fragment survives (Eur. Fr. 484 (Nauck)). Euripides seems to have given her a knowledge of science and philosophy inappropriate to a woman.
12 Or "unravelling."
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