Sophocles: Electra

Full-scale 2007 commentary on a revised Greek text, with original metrical analyses of the lyrical sections.

Sophocles (Author), P. J. Finglass (Edited by)

9780521868099, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 9 August 2007

658 pages
22.4 x 14.6 x 4 cm, 1.01 kg

'For any question even remotely connected to this play - palaeographical, papyrological, mythological, metrical, topographical, stylistic, orthographic, and so on - this is where I'll start … This will be the text and commentary to use and consult for years to come.' David Schenker, Classical Bulletin

One of Sophocles' more accomplished dramas, the Electra has always generated a good deal of scholarly debate. This 2007 edition, the first full-scale commentary on any play of Sophocles since the nineteenth century, explores afresh long-standing controversies such as the moral status of the killing of Clytemnestra, while also investigating many subjects which have traditionally attracted less attention, such as the place of rhetoric within the drama, the use of typical scenes, and allusions to epinician poetry. It provides original metrical analyses of the lyrical sections of the play and a revised Greek text. Research on the papyri, mediaeval manuscripts and printed editions has led to a more accurate apparatus criticus than ever before, with many conjectures attributed to their rightful owners.

Introduction
SOPHOKLEOUS ELEKTRA
Commentary
Appendices.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK], Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB], Art & design styles: Classicism [ACQH]