Classical Writers.
Edited by John Richard Green.
SOPHOCLES.
BY
LEWIS CAMPBELL, M.A., LL.D.
PROFESSOR OF GREEK IN THE UNIVERSITY
OF ST ANDREWS.
'The primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be.
London:
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1879.
LONDON: PRINTED BY
SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE
AND PARLIAMENT STREET
CONTENTS
PAGE | |
INTRODUCTION | 5 |
Chapter I. | |
LIFE OF SOPHOCLES | 7 |
Chapter II. | |
ANTECEDENTS: RELIGIOUS | 13 |
Chapter III. | |
ANTECEDENTS: NATIONAL AND POLITICAL | 19 |
Chapter IV. | |
ANTECEDENTS: ETHICAL—THE AGE OF TRAGEDY | 22 |
Chapter V. | |
EXTERNAL CONDITIONS—CHOICE OF FABLE | 33 |
Chapter VI. | |
ARGUMENTS OF THE SEVEN EXTANT PLAYS | 41 |
Chapter VII. | |
METHOD OF CONSTRUCTION—I. INVENTION; II. ARRANGEMENT | 57 |
Chapter VIII. | |
MODE OF CONSTRUCTION CONTINUED:—CONTRAST—CONTINUITY AND PERSPECTIVE—"UNITY OF TIME"—FREEDOM AND VARIETY | 75 |
Chapter IX. | |
THE PERSONS—AJAX, ŒDIPUS, PHILOCTETES, NEOPTOLEMUS | 89 |
Chapter X. | |
THE PERSONS—ANTIGONE, ELECTRA, DEIANIRA | 102 |
Chapter XI. | |
THE PERSONS:—HERACLES—HYLLUS; ORESTES—ÆGISTHUS; CREON—TEIRESIAS—HÆMON; ODYSSEUS—TEUCER—AGAMEMNON—MENELAUS; THESEUS | 110 |
Chapter XII. | |
THE PERSONS:—TECMESSA—JOCASTA—ISMENE—CHRYSOTHEMIS—CLYTEMNESTRA—EURYDICE—MINOR CHARACTERS | 118 |
Chapter XIII. | |
THE CHORUS | 127 |
Chapter XIV. | |
POETIC FORM | 134 |
Chapter XV. | |
FRAGMENTS FROM LOST PLAYS | 141 |
Chapter XVI. | |
TRANSLATIONS | 146 |
Chapter XVII. | |
ÆSCHYLUS—SOPHOCLES—EURIPIDES—SHAKESPEARE | 151 |
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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