Volume 292 of the Mnemosyne Supplementa, this title argues a fundamental difference in the modes of expression of actor and chorus in Sophoklean tragedy, using Antigone and Philoktetes as
examples. Kitzinger (classics, Vassar College) discusses the fuller context of the staging of the chorus, and studies how the mode of expression of the chorus is essentially different from that
of the actors, showing a distinction between what can be said and thought through the medium of song versus speech and action. The book includes five sections: preface and introduction,
separate sections on first Antigone followed by Philokletes with equal space spent on each, and an epilogue. The author includes sections from both plays in the original Greek as provided by
the Oxford Classical Text, and does not provide translations; this well-researched title contains excellent scholarship and is intended for advanced students in the Classics. Annotation 穢2008
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