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Dirke And the Sun's Course in Sophocles' Antigone

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

E. Coughanowr
E. Coughanowr
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Villanova University
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There has been apparently a universal agreement among commentators on Antigone that either Sophocles was wrong in having the early sun rise over Dirke, west of Thebes, or that he chose Dirke rather than Ismenos, which flows to the east, as the most representative waterbed. But, curiously enough, they fail to realize that Sophocles nowhere in the above passage mentions the sun, but rather the sunlight, , eyelid, may not necessarily mean but eyelashes, i.e. the outward-bound sunbeams.

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Research Article
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , May 1973 , pp. 22 - 23
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1973

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References

page 22 note 1 Nevius, Donaldson, Schneidewin, Wolf, Schmelzer, Wecklein, Jebb, Bayfield, Campbell, Muff, and others.

page 22 note 2 N (Aug. Nauck, p. 144), libri.

page 22 note 3 As schoolchildren we knew, without looking at the clock, that when the sunlight hit a certain dry bed in the western plain below we should be late for school.