Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Bibliography of short titles
- 1 Introductory
- 2 The mind of Ajax
- 3 The burial of Ajax
- 4 Trachiniae
- 5 Sophocles and the irrational: three odes in Antigone
- 6 Creon and Antigone
- 7 Fate in Sophocles
- 8 The fall of Oedipus
- 9 Furies in Sophocles
- 10 Electra
- 11 Oedipus at Colonus
- 12 Philoctetes
- 13 Heroes and gods
- Appendices
- A The Parodos of Trachiniae
- B Trachiniae 248ff.
- C Prometheus Vinctus 511–20
- D The Parodos of Electra
- E Locality in Oedipus Coloneus
- F Philoctetes 419ff.
- G The chronology of the plays
- Select index
D - The Parodos of Electra
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Bibliography of short titles
- 1 Introductory
- 2 The mind of Ajax
- 3 The burial of Ajax
- 4 Trachiniae
- 5 Sophocles and the irrational: three odes in Antigone
- 6 Creon and Antigone
- 7 Fate in Sophocles
- 8 The fall of Oedipus
- 9 Furies in Sophocles
- 10 Electra
- 11 Oedipus at Colonus
- 12 Philoctetes
- 13 Heroes and gods
- Appendices
- A The Parodos of Trachiniae
- B Trachiniae 248ff.
- C Prometheus Vinctus 511–20
- D The Parodos of Electra
- E Locality in Oedipus Coloneus
- F Philoctetes 419ff.
- G The chronology of the plays
- Select index
Summary
A full analysis of all the trains of thought and emotion, of all the aesthetic relationships, in this subtle kommos would be lengthy and difficult. I wish only to pick out certain features, particularly those which seem to reflect the Aeschylean background.
The main theme of the first two stanzas (121–52) is Electra and her excessive lamentation, the Chorus' appeal to her to be moderate (which is to say not Electra, not heroic, not tragic).
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- Sophocles: An Interpretation , pp. 335 - 339Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1980