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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 16 16 Browse Search
Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone 2 2 Browse Search
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Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone, Introduction (search)
ophocles as saying,—*periklh=s poiei=n me e)/fh, strathgei=n d' ou)k e)pi/stasqai. Sophocles (Ritter argues) would have said fhsi/, not e)/fh, if Pericles had been alive. The forger of the fragment intended it to refer to the revolt of Lesbos in 428 B.C.,—forgetting that Sophocles would then be 78. But we reply:—The tense, e)/fh, can obviously refer to the particular occasion on which the remark was made: ‘Pericles said so [when I was appointed, or when we were at Samos together].’ (2) Ion says . tr.).. If the fragment of Ion is authentic, then it is certain that Sophocles held the strategia, and certain also that he held it in 440 B.C.: for Ion's mention of Lesbos cannot possibly be referred to the revolt of that island from Athens in 428 B.C. Apart from the fragment of Ion, however, there is good Attic authority for the tradition. Androtion, whose Atthis was written about 280 B.C., gave the names of the ten generals at Samos on this occasion. His listThis fragment of Androtion h