Antigone. Sophocles. Fleischer. 1830.
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Antigone. Sophocles. Fleischer. 1830.
Sponsored by Perseus Project, Tufts University.
Funding provided by Tufts University.
Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) (Greek) (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830))
Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.
1058. mvp-comment-611-1 For you possess this city through saving it by my counsel. ἐξ ἐμοῦ depends partly on ἔχεις and partly on σώσας. The line has been supposed to refer to the self-immolation of the son of Creon by the advice of Teiresias. Eur. Phoen. 918, foll. Cp. supr. 933-935, infr. 1303. But it is not clear that Sophocles has any distinct incident in view. These things are ἔξω τοῦ μυθεύματος, Ar. Poet. 1460 a.