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