The dating of Euripides’ Antiope to the beginning of the last decade of the fifth century by a well-known scholium on Aristophanes’ Frogs is considered unsure on account of the statistics for trimeter resolutions. In the light of the analysis in the paper of the composition of the main chorus and of the setting of Antiope, as well as of the lexical and thematic proximity between the most conspicuously ‘political’ fragments of the lost tragedy and certain passages from The Phoenician Women and Orestes, it is possible to pronounce in favour of the correctness of the scholium as transmitted and to narrow the time frame in which Antiope would have been performed to a shorter span contained within the period between the staging of Andromeda and Euripides’ departure for Macedon.
Sulla datazione dell’Antiope di Euripide
Sabina Castellaneta
2020-01-01
Abstract
The dating of Euripides’ Antiope to the beginning of the last decade of the fifth century by a well-known scholium on Aristophanes’ Frogs is considered unsure on account of the statistics for trimeter resolutions. In the light of the analysis in the paper of the composition of the main chorus and of the setting of Antiope, as well as of the lexical and thematic proximity between the most conspicuously ‘political’ fragments of the lost tragedy and certain passages from The Phoenician Women and Orestes, it is possible to pronounce in favour of the correctness of the scholium as transmitted and to narrow the time frame in which Antiope would have been performed to a shorter span contained within the period between the staging of Andromeda and Euripides’ departure for Macedon.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
