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A Couple of Conjectures that Point to Hands in Sophocles

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  • Oliver Taplin
Oliver Taplin
Oxford University

Published 2015-05-20

Keywords

  • Sophocles,
  • Philoctetes,
  • Oedipus the King,
  • Greek Deictic Pronouns
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How to Cite

Taplin, O. (2015). A Couple of Conjectures that Point to Hands in Sophocles. Hyperboreus, 20(1-2), 101-104. https://doi.org/10.36950/hyperboreus.AEMG1054

Abstract

The need to include stage-directions in a new translation of Sophocles has drawn attention to – predictably – the bow in Philoctetes, and – less predictably – to hands in Oedipus. This has led to the proposal of changing a simple article to a deictic indicator at Phil. 262 and OT 1022. These are offered not as emendations of the transmitted text but as plausible improvements which call for the addition of only one letter.

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