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A Note on Aeschylus Choephori 205ff

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Walter Burkert
Affiliation:
Erlangen University

Extract

By presenting ‘an Arab view’ on the much-discussed ‘footprint-scene’, Aeschylus, ch. 205ff., L. A. Tregenza (Greece & Rome N.s. ii [1955], 59–61; cf. H. Lloyd-Jones, C.Q. N.S. xi [1961], 171ff.) was able to prove that, judging by Bedouin customs, this strange method of recognition is not so impossible and childish as some ancient and modern critics have believed. In addition, a specifically Greek aspect of the problem may be pointed out.

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Copyright © The Classical Association 1963

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