‘Dancing in Chains’: Resolution in Sophocles’ Trimeters

• L. P. E. Parker ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Oxford

     University of Oxford

     Oxford District, Reino Unido

     
• Localización: Glotta: zeitschrift für griechische und lateinische sprache..., ISSN 0017-1298, Nº. 98, 2022, págs. 231-236
• Idioma: inglés
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  • It now seems clear that Euripides’ motive in progressively admitting more resolution in his iambic trimeters was to widen his vocabulary, but no such development is detectable in his near contemporary, Sophocles. The object of the following paper is to initiate examination into ways in which Sophocles avoided resolution and initial substitution and what effect such avoidance had on his vocabulary. For that purpose, I examine in particular verbs com-pounded with disyllabic prepositions and the devices by which Sophocles still contrived to use them