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- Title
The End of Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus: The Sceptical Case Restated.
- Authors
Kovacs, David
- Abstract
An earlier article of mine, Kovacs (2009a), discussed OT 1424–1530, whose genuineness was impugned most recently by Dawe (2001; 2006). I argued that 1424–67 (which I call A) are genuine, but that 1468–1530 (which I call B) are spurious. Sommerstein (2011), accepting my defence of A, undertook the defence of all but a few lines of B as well, dismantling much of my case against it and adding the argument that the transmitted ending mirrors the play's beginning and is therefore presumptively Sophoclean. The present article, in part a reply to Sommerstein's reply, restates some of my earlier arguments and also presents new evidence for the spuriousness of B.
- Subjects
OEDIPUS Rex (Play : Sophocles); ENDINGS (Literature); SOPHOCLES, ca. 497 B.C.-406 B.C.; GREEK tragedy -- History &; criticism; LITERARY forgeries &; mystifications; SOMMERSTEIN, A. H.
- Publication
Journal of Hellenic Studies, 2014, Vol 134, p56
- ISSN
0075-4269
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1017/S0075426914000056