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Note on the Rhesus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

S. H. Steadman
Affiliation:
Bristol.

Abstract

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Type
Review Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1945

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page 6 note 1 Il. x. 334 f.

page 6 note 2 Ibid. 465–8.

page 6 note 3 Ibid. 526–9.

page 6 note 4 Ibid. 570 f.

page 6 note 1 I assume what seems the most probable view: that the Rhesus was rightly attributed by the didascaliae and is a work of the playwright's immaturity, perhaps written a few years before the Peliades (455 B.C.).

page 6 note 2 Il. 339–41.

page 6 note 3 Rh. 208–13.

page 6 note 4 592 f.

page 7 note 1 Rh. 139: Ag. 4; Rh. 790 f.: Ag. 1389 f.; possibly Rh. 289: Ag. 562— occurs only three times in Tragedy.

page 7 note 2 29.

page 7 note 3 224.

page 7 note 4 535.

page 7 note 5 543, S62.

page 7 note 1 The phrase suggests that somehow it was more than a dream.

page 7 note 2 Il. viii. 497–541.Google Scholar

page 8 note 1 Rh. 56–66.

page 8 note 2 224–7.

page 8 note 3 Pind. P. i. 39; schol. ad Ar. Eq. 1240; it might naturally occur in a play the hero of which was king of Mysia.

page 8 note 4 Il. iv. 101.

page 8 note 5 For a full discussion of the matter see Jebb on Soph. El. 6 f.

page 8 note 1 Rh. 573.

page 8 note 2 521.

page 8 note 3 573.

page 8 note 4 688.

page 8 note 5 Cf. Little Red Riding-Hood.

page 8 note 6 985–6.