Sophocles: Ajax

623 Pages·2011·5.94 MB·English

by  Patrick J. Finglass

CAMBRIDGE CLASSICAL TEXTS
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SOPHOCLES: AJAX

SOPHOCLES
AJAX
EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION,
TRANSLATION, AND COMMENTARY
BY
P. J. FINGLASS
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CONTENTS
Preface pageix
INTRODUCTION 1
1 Date 1
2 Festival 11
3 Production 11
4 Myth 26
5 Heroism 42
6 Unity 51
7 Politics 57
8 Text 59
TEXT AND CRITICAL APPARATUS 71
Indexsiglorum 72
!"#"$%&"’!()(! 77
COMMENTARY 133
Prologue(1–133) 135
Parodos(134–200) 175
Firstepisode,partone(201–347) 202
Kommos(348–429) 238
Firstepisode,parttwo(430–595) 264
Firststasimon(596–645) 313
Secondepisode(646–92) 328
Secondstasimon(693–718) 341
Thirdepisode,partone(719–814) 351
Thirdepisode,parttwo(815–65) 375
Epiparodosandkommos(866–973) 389
Fourthepisode(974–1184) 416
Thirdstasimon(1185–1222) 469
Exodos(1223–1420) 478
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CONTENTS
BIBLIOGRAPHY 526
1 Abbreviations:referenceworks 526
2 Abbreviations:scholars’names 529
3 Abbreviations:standardworksonSophocles 530
4 EditionsofSophocles’Ajax 530
5 TranslationsofSophocles’Ajax 532
6 Works cited by author’s name 532
7 Works cited by author’s name with date 540
INDEXES
Index of subjects 591
Index of Greek 605
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PREFACE
It is a pleasure to record the assistance which I have received
from friends, colleagues, and institutions during my work on
thisbook.FirstthanksareowedtoJamesDiggle,whoreadeach
section of the commentary as soon it was ready. Lyndsay Coo,
MichaelReeve,andMartinWestreadthecompletetypescript,
and Malcolm Davies and Neil Hopkinson substantial sections
ofit;ScottScullionandAlanSommersteincommentedonthe
IntroductionanddiscussionofthestagingofAjax’sdeath.
I am grateful to the staff of the Hallward library in Notting-
ham, the Bodleian, Sackler, and Taylorian libraries in Oxford,
the British, National Art, and Institute of Classical Studies
libraries in London, and the Universiteitsbibliotheek in Lei-
den. The kindness of All Souls College, Oxford, allows me
especially easy access to Oxford libraries. Almut Fries, Tim-
othy Janz, and Jo Willmott gave me permission to cite their
unpublishedDPhilandMPhiltheses.DavidButterfield,Almut
Fries,RanjaKno¨bl,KyriakiKonstantinidou,HelenLovatt,and
Cressida Ryan acquired books and articles for me in Berlin,
Cambridge, Go¨ttingen, and Munich. I have received gifts, or
extended loans, of books or microfilms from Luigi Battez-
zato, David Butterfield, Angelos Chaniotis, Christopher Col-
lard, Malcolm Davies, the late Aubrey Morley, Camillo Neri,
Stan Owen, Andrea Rodighiero, Donald Russell, Alan Som-
merstein,ChristopherStray,SimonSwain,MartinWest,Nigel
Wilson,BenjaminWood,andHughWright.
I submitted the typescript of this book to Cambridge Uni-
versity Press on 21 August 2009, three years after I moved to
Nottingham and began work on it. I have been able to insert
references to work published after that date, but only sporad-
ically. The Syndics approved it on 12 February 2010, at which
point the typescript was closed. It has been delightful to work
once again with Michael Sharp and Muriel Hall during the
productionofthebook.
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