Probably no Greek tragedy has proved as rich a source of perplexity, theory, and debate as the Antigone. A number of the formidable problems which various critics have seen in the play emerge from the two watchman scenes and the great ode which separates them. It will be argued here that these difficulties are the result of certain radical misunderstandings and are capable of straightforward solution.
What is the dry garment which Sceparnio offers to the sea-soaked Charmides? First of all, there is doubt about the spelling of the word. The Palatine tradition is tigillum, though T has tixillum; the Ambrosian palimpsest is provokingly defective at this point and Studemund was unable to determine whether the vowel is e or i. Since the beginning of the sixteenth century editors have chosen to print tegillum, being influenced by notes preserved in the collections of two grammarians—Nonius and Paulus. I quote these from Lindsay's Teubner editions.
ÄRNOLÖ BlUlöSHAŴ '-.-rV-Äv' THE IMPRINTI^ÖF'THE PHAISTOS DISC The study by Haecker and Scheller in a recent issue of Kadmos 1 is of special interest because it concentrates on visible data and on details of arrangement which invite an explanation of a kind which is other than linguistic. This line of investigation is one of the few which hold out promise, and it should appeal to those -and they are many -who believe that in the present state of our knowledge the inscription is indecipherable and unintelligible.H.-J. Haecker -S. Scheller, Ein neues Argument für rechtsläufige Leserichtung des Diskos von Phaistos, Kadmos 10,1971,20-7 These were noticed soon after the discovery of the disc: A. Della Seta, II Disco di Phaistos, RRAL, class. sc. mor., stör, e fiL, 18, ser. 5,1909,297-367. l KADMOS XV Brought to you by |
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