Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Bibliography of short titles
- 1 Introductory
- 2 The mind of Ajax
- 3 The burial of Ajax
- 4 Trachiniae
- 5 Sophocles and the irrational: three odes in Antigone
- 6 Creon and Antigone
- 7 Fate in Sophocles
- 8 The fall of Oedipus
- 9 Furies in Sophocles
- 10 Electra
- 11 Oedipus at Colonus
- 12 Philoctetes
- 13 Heroes and gods
- Appendices
- A The Parodos of Trachiniae
- B Trachiniae 248ff.
- C Prometheus Vinctus 511–20
- D The Parodos of Electra
- E Locality in Oedipus Coloneus
- F Philoctetes 419ff.
- G The chronology of the plays
- Select index
E - Locality in Oedipus Coloneus
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Bibliography of short titles
- 1 Introductory
- 2 The mind of Ajax
- 3 The burial of Ajax
- 4 Trachiniae
- 5 Sophocles and the irrational: three odes in Antigone
- 6 Creon and Antigone
- 7 Fate in Sophocles
- 8 The fall of Oedipus
- 9 Furies in Sophocles
- 10 Electra
- 11 Oedipus at Colonus
- 12 Philoctetes
- 13 Heroes and gods
- Appendices
- A The Parodos of Trachiniae
- B Trachiniae 248ff.
- C Prometheus Vinctus 511–20
- D The Parodos of Electra
- E Locality in Oedipus Coloneus
- F Philoctetes 419ff.
- G The chronology of the plays
- Select index
Summary
Words of locality are frequent in the opening scene. The matter is first raised in if., with the twofold enquiry of Oedipus: what places (χώρoνσ), what city of men? This is answered, in reverse order, by Antigone at 14ff.: the city afar, which she knows to be Athens (24), and the χῶρoς (16, 24) which she only knows to be holy.
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- Sophocles: An Interpretation , pp. 339 - 340Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1980