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September 10, 2025

A Couple of Conjectures that Point to Hands in Sophocles

Key Points

Changing a simple article to a deictic indicator can enhance understanding of hands in Oedipus.
Proposed text improvements call for minimal alteration, adding only one letter for clarity.
Attention to stage-directions in Sophocles can reveal deeper insights into the characters' actions.
The investigation emphasizes textual nuances and their influence on translation accuracy.

Abstract

The need to include stage-directions in a new translation of Sophocles has drawn attention to – predictably – the bow in Philoctetes, and – less predictably – to hands in Oedipus. This has led to the proposal of changing a simple article to a deictic indicator at Phil. 262 and OT 1022. These are offered not as emendations of the transmitted text but as plausible improvements which call for the addition of only one letter.

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Oliver Taplin (Wed,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c199f49b7b07f3a061bfd5 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.36950/hyperboreus.aemg1054

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