[313] Cf. Ridgeway, Dramas and Dramatic Dances of Non-European Races, p. 83.
[314] Fig. 73 is taken from Baumeister, Denkmäler, Fig. 980. Within the prothyron are the king of Corinth and his daughter, Jason’s second wife. The latter is being assisted by her brother. In front lies an opened box which contained the poisoned gifts. From the other side the queen comes rushing. In the foreground is Medea slaying one of her children, while a youth tries to rescue the other. In the center is Oistros, the demon of madness, mounted upon a dragon chariot. Further on Jason is hastening to aid his boys, and on the extreme right is the ghost of Aeetes, Medea’s father. The design is apparently not based upon Euripides’ Medea. Cf. Earle’s edition, pp. 60 f.
[315] Cf. Discours des trois unités, I, 119 (Regnier’s edition; 1862).
[316] Cf. Legrand, The New Greek Comedy, pp. 356 f., Loeb’s translation.
[317] For another interpretation cf. Mooney, op. cit., p. 19 and n. 13.
[318] The Ajax is one of the earliest among Sophocles’ extant plays, but its exact date is not known. I have assumed that it preceded the introduction of a proscenium about 430 B.C. (see [p. 235], above). If it was written after that innovation, the statement in the text would have to be altered accordingly, but the general method of procedure remains the same in either case.
[319] Cf. Jebb, The Attic Orators, Vol. I, p. ciii.
[320] In addition to the works mentioned on pp. [xvii] and [xx f.] and the bibliography listed on [pp. 57-59], above, cf. Campbell, Classical Review, IV (1890), 303 ff.; Verrall in his edition of Euripides’ Ion (1890), pp. xlviii ff.; Krause, Quaestiones Aristophaneae Scaenicae (1903); Kent, “The Time Element in the Greek Drama,” Transactions of the American Philological Association, XXXVII (1906), 39 ff.; Felsch, Quibus Artificiis Adhibitis Poetae Tragici Graeci Unitates Illas et Temporis et Loci Observaverint (1907); Polczyk, De Unitatibus et Loci et Temporis in Nova Comoedia Observatis (1909); Marek, De Temporis et Loci Unitatibus a Seneca Tragico Observatis (1909); Wolf, Die Bezeichnung von Ort und Zeit in der attischen Tragödie (1911); Butcher, Aristotle’s Theory of Poetry and Fine Art⁴ (1911), pp. 274 ff.; Brasse, Quatenus in Fabulis Plautinis et Loci et Temporis Unitatibus Species Veritatis Neglegatur (1914); and Manning, A Study of Archaism in Euripides (1916).
[321] ΧΟΡΟΥ is printed at this point in most editions but occurs in no manuscript (see [p. 145], above); it has been inserted by the editors.
[322] Cf. Scott, Classical Philology, VIII (1913), 453 ff.