^{page 36 note 1} Incidentally the Dioscuri with their not unknown Spartan connections would be strange gods for an Athenian poet to invoke on that occasion.

^{page 37 note 1} Nor am I convinced by Newiger's, ingenious argument (Hermes, lxxxix [1961], 422 f.Google Scholar) that the Aristophanic passage cannot be explained without supposing that Euripides' Electra is referred to.

^{page 37 note 2} Neither does the dissertation of Schwinge, E. R. (Hypomnemata 1, 1962Google Scholar, reviewed together with Mattheissen by Newiger, in G.G.A. 219 [1967], 175 f.Google Scholar). Schwinge tries to show that the Trachiniae is earlier than the Alcestis by an argument that involves the acceptance of an interpretation of the latter by Von Fritz (Antike und moderne Tragödie, 256 f.) that is anything but certain; see Miss Dale's introduction to her edition and Leskv. Ges. Schr. 281 f.