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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 54 54 Browse Search
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Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone, Introduction (search)
ctingHad the play any bearing upon the poet's appointment? this strategia of Sophocles with the production of his Antigone? The authority for such a connection is the first Argument to the play. This is ascribed to Aristophanes of Byzantium (c. 200 B.C.), but is more probably of later origin. It says;—‘They say (fasi/) that Sophocles was appointed to the strategia which he held at Samos, because he had distinguished himself by the production of the Antigone.’ Here, as so often elsewhere, the hrase, ‘they say,’ is not an expression of doubt, but an indication that the story was found in several writers. We know the names of at least two writers in whose works such a tradition would have been likely to occur. One of them is Satyrus (c. 200 B.C.), whose collection of biographies was used by the author of the Life of SophoclesSee Introduction to the Oed. Col., § 18, p. xli. J. S. III.3; the other—also quoted in the Life—is Carystius of Pergamum, who lived about 110 B.C., and wr
Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone, Hypotheses (search)
t at least be regarded as very doubtful. If the perfect a)nh/|rhtai in line 2 is sound, it is an indication of much later age, as has been shown in the critical note above. Another such indication, I think, is the phrase ei)s mnhmei=on kata/geion e)nteqei=sa para\ (instead of u(po\) tou= *kre/ontos (l. 2),—a later (and modern) use of the prep. which does not surprise us in Salustius (Arg. II. l. 11 para\ tou= *kre/ontos kwlu/etai), but which would be strange in the Alexandrian scholar of circ. 200 B.C. In the Laurentian MS. this Argument precedes, while the other two follow, the play. e)n *)antigo/nh| Only some 21 small fragments remain (about 80 verses in all), and these throw no light on the details of the plot. to\n *mai/ona. This reading is made almost certain by the mention of ‘Maion, son of Haemon’ in Il. 4.394, coupled with the fact that L has *mai/mona in the margin (see cr. n.). But the reading meta\ tou= *ai(/monos just before is doubtful. If it is sound, then we must underst<