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Antigone and the Bride of Corinth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

H. J. Rose
Affiliation:
University Collage of Walrs, Aberystwyth

Extract

This paper sets out to answer four apparently unconnected questions, which, however, I hope to show to be parts of one question:

(1) Why did Haimon kill himself over the body of Antigone?

(2) Why did Philinnion return for three nights to her father's house?

(3) Why is it unlawful(ού θέμɩς) to leave a story unfinished?

(4) Why is a magician sometimes torn in pieces by his own devils, or otherwise destroyed by his own magic?

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1925

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References

page 147 note 1 In a paper read before the British Association at Toronto, August, 1924; see Classical Philology, July, 1925.

page 148 note 1 Aen. VI. 444 sqq.

page 149 note 1 See Pliny, , N H. XXXIII. 12Google Scholar, sponsae … ferreus anulus mittitur.