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Some Passages of the Agamemnon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

H. D. Broadhead
H. D. Broadhead
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Christchurch, New Zealand
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In this article I deal with difficulties, textual and exegetical, in ten passages of the Agamemnon. In some passages there is wide agreement on the sense required, but not on the remedies proposed for a corrupt reading: here I venture to put forward fresh proposals that seem to possess a reasonable1 degree of palaeo-graphical probability (1347, 1659). In another passage I argue for a new interpretation with its appropriate emendation (1339). In some cases where the sense is hardly in doubt and the text not certainly corrupt, I propose what seems on linguistic or other grounds a preferable reading (496,966,1409,1630), or I argue in favour of some other scholar's proposal (319). Finally, where there can be little, if any, likelihood of successful restoration, I offer a tentative suggestion which may give at least an approximation to the original text (1657).

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Research Article
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 9 , Issue 3-4 , November 1959 , pp. 310 - 316
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1959

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page 310 note 1 After all the labour expended on the text of the Agamemnon it is unlikely that absolutely convincing emendations will be forthcoming

page 311 note 1 1096, 1217, 1242. Atreus' sin is referred to twice: (1185), (1197), and in 1223 the punishment for it is foretold. It is probable that in 1340 is an echo of .s in 1223. In both passages I believe the punishment is said to fall on Agamemnon.

page 311 note 2 In 1500ff. the murder of Agamemnon is regarded as punishment for Atreus' crime, and naturally so, since from 1468 the theme has been the . Earlier in the scene Clytemnestra thinks of Agamemnon's murder as justice realized for her child (1432), whose sacrifice (1417) called for another sacrifice (that of Agamemnon, 1509).

page 312 note 1 For of the MSS. I think we should read in P.V. 187).

page 313 note 1 Fraenkel exaggerates the number of those [in favour of immediate action’ (p. 644). Speakers 8 and 9 should not be counted in, and, as will be seen later, I would exclude also 4 and 5.

page 316 note 1 Lindau had proposed irpos .