Sophocles (Classical Writers)

by Lewis Campbell

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