Ichneutae (Walker 1919)

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The Tragedies of Euripides (1919)
by Sophocles, translated by Richard Johnson Walker

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The Ichneutae of Sophocles is a fragmentary satyr play, and the longest such surviving play written by Sophocles.

Sophocles3661800The Tragedies of Euripides1919Richard Johnson Walker

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THE ICHNEUTAE OF SOPHOCLES

THE

ICHNEUTAE
OF SOPHOCLES

With Notes and a Translation into English,
preceded by Introductory Chapters
dealing with the Play, with
Satyric Drama, and with
various cognate
matters

BY

RICHARD JOHNSON WALKER

Τέλος δὲ τραγῳδίας μὲν λύειν τὸν βίον, κωμῳδίας δὲ συνιστᾶν αὐτὸν, σατυρικῆς δὲ τοιούτοις θυμελικοῖς χαριεντισμοῖς καθηδύνειν αὐτόν.

Περὶ Κωμῳδίας,
apud Crameri Anecdota.

LONDON:
BURNS AND OATES LTD.
28 ORCHARD STREET, W.
1919

CONTENTS

	PAGE
Dedication	v
Preface	xi
Chapter I (The Plot)	1
Chapter II (The Staff and the Lyre)	5
Chapter III (The Suppression of Pan)	14
Chapter IV (The Style of the Play)	25
Chapter V (The Vocabulary of the Play)	30
Chapter VI (Stichometry)	155
Chapter VII (The Choric Metres of the Play)	175
Chapter VIII (Non-Choric Metre in Satyric Drama, with a Discussion of the Practice of Pratinas)	189
Chapter IX (Thespis)	270
Chapter X (De Choro: an alleged Dialogue by Sophocles, in which the Disputants are Thespis, Choerilus, and himself)	305
Chapter XI (Origines)	313
Chapter XII (Notes on the Nature of Satyric Drama)	348
Chapter XIII (Eridion Agyrticum ?)	353
Chapter XIV (Cos)	378
Text of the Ichneutae with Translation into English and Apparatus Criticus	433
Notes on the Text	508
Appendix to Introductory Chapters	567
Addenda, etc.	627
Indices	645

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