Abstract
This article suggests that the brief choral comments that intervene between the speeches of two characters in Euripidean dialogue scenes may sometimes be more dramatically significant and interesting than is usually supposed. In Alcestis 326–7 and Hecuba 846–9 the chorus-leaders’ comments are directed obliquely toward (respectively) Admetus and Agamemnon, and are designed in a suitably tactful manner to influence their responses to the appeals of Alcestis and Hecuba. The problematic text of Hecuba 846–849 can be explained accordingly, and is so explained in a little-noticed comment by a Byzantine scholiast.
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