Castor in Euripides'Electra(El.307–13 and 1292–1307)

Abstract

This paper presents evidence, in the form of two passages from theElectra, that the editor of Euripides will do well not to resign himself too easily to pointless illogicality or violations of the formal regularities of tragedy or to comfort himself with the idea that illogic and meandering are ‘human’ touches, while formal incongruities are Euripides' incipientverismo.