Notes on Euripides' Bacchae

A. Y. Campbell

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Notes on Euripides' Bacchae

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Since 1944, attempts at progress in the interpretation of the text of the Bacchae must inevitably express themselves mainly in terms of respectful disagreement with Professor Dodds's edition published in that year.

20–24. Dodds's text was justly called in question by Kitto (C.R. lx (1946), 65), but there is only one available remedy for this complex; those who work it out for themselves will find that they had been anticipated by Wecklein in his text (1898) and school edition (ed. 2, 1903; see further the Anhang).

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Information: The Classical Quarterly , Volume 6 , Issue 1-2 , May 1956 , pp. 56 - 67

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009838800014993 [Opens in a new window]
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^{page 56 note 1} Cf. Sandys, 100. It was struck by hand.

^{page 56 note 2} The adverb in superlative is used with by Eunapius, , Vit. Soph. 502,Google Scholar ed. Boissonade; but that is A.D. fourth to fifth century.

^{page 58 note 1} But is in itself much more appropriate to the pursuer; see L.S.J.

^{page 58 note 2} For the notion that it is at 652 ^a see below.

^{page 58 note 3} 219–20 is no evidence to contrary; it assumes no more than does 467.

^{page 58 note 4} To the substance of my sense (= ‘Quite so, that succour is purely illusory!’) I see no alternative; in 652 must be made specious, a requirement which Murray’s supplement fails to meet. ‘Some random taunt’ Sandys; no, not random.

^{page 59 note 1} Or as Mr. D. W. Lucas suggests, the presence of an accomplice (649) who has got in and must not get out.

^{page 59 note 2} In effect by Dodds.

^{page 59 note 3} Not at birth, evidently, but when old enough to have been given a name.

^{page 59 note 4} I do not believe in Kitto's sense (and consequent attribution of 652 to P.), because that would in my opinion require .

^{page 60 note 1} He renders (p. 173) 'a god most dangerous to man, yet most gentle to him’.

^{page 60 note 2} And the list could be extended; a nice example is Iph. Aul. 920–1.

^{page 61 note 1} In Theocr. 26. 11 (context clearly reminiscent of E. Ba.) P. has hidden himself in a bush which ‘grows to a height of about six feet’(Gow).

^{page 61 note 2} More about the problem of the iambic tripody in Dale, , Lyric Metres, 101, 113–14.Google Scholar

^{page 62 note 1} ‘Injustice and greed would be the real thing if we lived for ever; as it is, we must hold to other things, because Death is coming.’ And later: ‘Death destroys a man; the idea of Death saves him’. See Forster, E. M., Howards End, ch. xxvii.Google Scholar

^{page 62 note 2} So also in all of the 11 exx. in Aesch. and the two in Soph, also support my argument.

^{page 62 note 3} P.S.—Cf., with in context, in Alc. 474–as rightly explained ii Miss Dale's edition.

^{page 63 note 1} Hermes, lxxxii (1954), 248.Google Scholar

^{page 63 note 2} , I.A. 568, refers to more personal or positive ambitions.

^{page 63 note 3} See further below.

^{page 63 note 4} As in the consistent imagery of Plato, Theaet. loc. cit.

^{page 64 note 1} Quite the contrary, this is a quietist creed, 389–90.

^{page 64 note 2} Denniston rightly remarks that ‘the juxtaposition of is avoided’. There are, however, exceptions: E. Ion 361 (but probably corrupt); Or. 1596, sound, but here means ‘yes’.