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The Robe Episode of the Choephori

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

P. A. Hansen
Affiliation:
Brasenose College, Oxford

Extract

The awkwardness of the word in 997 has called forth various transpositions and excisions, but none so far suggested seems to put the passage right. Thus Fraenkel excised 991—6 and 1005 f. Professor H. Lloyd-Jones very rightly defends the passage against this, advocating the placing of 991—6 between 1005 and 1006. But although the verses do indeed fit here, is still slightly odd, since a few lines come between Orestes' first talking of the robe (980 ff.) and his next mention of it (997), and in these lines both Clytemnestra and Aegisthus are mentioned.

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Shorter Notes
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1978

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References

1 Appendix C to Fraenkel's, Agamemnon iii.809–15).Google Scholar

2 CQ N.S. 11 (1961), 181–4.Google Scholar

3 My thanks are due to Dr. O. Taplin for reading this note and causing me to make certain alterations.