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A Prayer to The Fates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

C. M. Bowra
Affiliation:
Wadham College, Oxford

Extract

In his choice of quotations concerning fate and the good ordering of events Stobaeus (Eel. 5. 10–12) gives in succession three passages which the manuscripts ascribe to the Peleus of Euripides and the Phaedra of Sophocles, but as Wilamowitz and Nauck saw, all three form a single piece, and the ascriptions to Euripides and Sophocles do not concern them. The text so recovered may be presented as follows

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1958

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References

1 I am much indebted for advice and assistance to Professor A. Andrewes and Mr. W. G. G. Forrest.

2 Isyllos von Epidauros, pp. 16

3 Tr. Gr. Fr., 2nd ed., p. xx.

4 Diehl, , Antk. Lyr. Gr. ii. 159–60Google Scholar. There is a good, short commentary in Smyth, H. W., Greek Melic Poets, pp. 473–4Google Scholar. Cf. Bowra, , Greek Lyric Poetry, pp. 9798.Google Scholar

1 Mr. W. G. G. Forrest points out to me that at Corinth they appear on the pediment of Temple E, Corinth, i. 2, p. 226.Google Scholar

2 G. Zolotas, p. 225. I owe this reference to Mr. W. G. G. Forrest.

1 Severyns, A., Bacchylide, pp. 4154.Google Scholar