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SOPHOCLES SELECTED FRAGMENTARY PLAYS VOLUME I ARIS & PHILLIPS CLASSICAL TEXTS SOPHOCLES Selected Fragmentary Plays with Introductions, Translations and Commentaries by Alan H. Sommerstein, David Fitzpatrick and Thomas Talboy Volume I Hermione, Polyxene, The Diners, Tereus, Troilus, Phaedra Aris & Phillips Classical Texts are published by Oxbow Books, Park End Place, Oxford OX1 1HN © A.H. Sommerstein, D.G. Fitzpatrick & T.H. Talboy 2006 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means including photocopying without the prior permission of the publishers in writing. ISBN 978 0 85668 765 5 0 85668 765 0 cloth ISBN 978 0 85668 766 2 0 85668 766 9 paper A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library. Cover illustration: Procne/Aedon in the act of killing Itys. After a fragment of a red-figure kylix, perhaps by Onesimos: Basel (H. Cahn) HC599. Printed and bound by Short Run Press, Exeter To the memory of MALCOLM WILLCOCK CONTENTS Preface ix General Introduction (AHS) xi References and Abbreviations xxx Hermione or The Women of Phthia (AHS) Introduction 1 Text and Translation 26 Commentary 32 Polyxene (AHS) Introduction 41 Text and Translation 68 Commentary 76 Syndeipnoi (The Diners) or Achaiôn Syllogos (The Gathering of the Achaeans) (AHS) Introduction 84 Text and Translation 104 Commentary 116 Tereus (DGF/AHS) Introduction 141 Text and Translation 160 Commentary 174 Troilus (AHS) Introduction 196 Text and Translation 218 Commentary 228 Phaedra (THT/AHS) Introduction 248 Text and Translation 290 Commentary 302 PREFACE This edition was inspired by the edition of selected fragmentary plays of Euripides by Christopher Collard, Martin Cropp and the late Kevin Lee, published in this series in 1995 and recently (2004) followed by a second volume edited by Collard, Cropp and John Gibert. In 1998 Alan Sommerstein, then director of the newly-founded Centre for Ancient Drama and its Reception (CADRE) at the University of Nottingham, established there a project for the study of the fragmentary tragedies of Sophocles, which has had two main outcomes. The first was an international conference, held in Nottingham in July 2000, twenty papers from which (including one by each of the editors of the present volume) were later published as Shards from Kolonos: Studies in Sophoclean Fragments (Bari, 2003); the second is the edition of which the present volume is the initial instalment. The original plan was for an edition comprising some nine or ten plays, with contributions by Alan Sommerstein, David Fitzpatrick, Thomas Talboy and Amy Clark (who was likewise a participant in the 2000 conference and a contributor to Shards from Kolonos). There were various subsequent changes to the plan, the most important, and most regretted, occurring when Amy Clark found she would be unable to complete her contribution – comprising the two Tyro plays and Niobe – within the time scale envisaged, owing to health and other problems. As a result of this the team have decided to bring out a second volume, to which all four members will contribute, and which will contain the three plays just mentioned together with (probably) Ajax the Locrian, The Epigonoi, the two Nauplius plays, Oenomaus, The Shepherds and Triptolemus. It is envisaged that this volume will be published in 2010. We were able to plan the format and norms of the edition at the 2000 conference and at a subsequent meeting in Nottingham; for the most part, however, our collaboration has been by email. It has felt none the less close for that: in the cyberworld there has been no distance between the banks of the Trent and the shores of the Pacific. Alan Sommerstein has acted as general editor of the volume. The Tereus and Phaedra sections were drafted by David Fitzpatrick and Thomas Talboy respectively, and revised in close consultation between them and Alan Sommerstein; in the Table of Contents each therefore bears the initials of two editors, and uses of the first person plural in the introductions and commentaries to these plays refer to these two editors unless the context requires a broader interpretation. Alan Sommerstein gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the Arts and Humanities Research Board (as it then was), which awarded him a semester of research leave in the latter part of 2003, additional to a semester granted by the
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