The Classical Quarterly (New Series)
- The Classical Quarterly (New Series) / Volume 22 / Issue 02 / December 1972, pp 231-235
- Copyright © The Classical Association 1972
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0009838800042026 (About DOI), Published online: 11 February 2009
Research Article
Euripides HippolΥtus 1120–1150
Raanan Meridora1
a1 The Hebrew University Jerusalem
The difficulty in the apostrophe of the 
(1144–5) has been noticed by commentators. So Barrett (ad loc.): ‘/ this cannot mean that the Amazon 
from Hipp, now that he is exiled: in all the forms of her legend … she meets a violent death at a time which cannot be long after Hipp.'s birth, and it is inconceivable that Eur. should mean his audience to think of her as still alive in Trozen or Athens.’
What seems to have passed unnoticed is that there are, in this choral ode (the triad 1120–50), two other passages which also suffer from at least prima facie incongruities with details of the story well known to the audience:
