Parting Words

This passage, which appears without variation at the end of four of Euripides' tragedies and with slight variation in a fifth,1 is perhaps the most notorious of the brief sequences of lines, usually anapaestic and usually assigned to the chorus, with which nearly all the extant plays of Sophocles and Euripides conclude.2 Unlike the more varied final speeches of extant Aeschylean tragedy, which are closely integrated with the play's concluding action, these passages often seem almost detachable from such action, a comment upon or merely after finished business rather than a part of its finishing. In some instances there is general scholarly agreement that the concluding lines are relevant to the action of a play, but many of these passages have been variously dismissed by scholars - as interpolations, as mere dramatic conveniences, or as intentional throwaways

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• Thucydides and the Philosophical Origins of History

  Open Access•Darien Shanske•Thucydides and the Philosophical…•2006

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• Sophocles

  Open Access•Sophocles ca v Chr v Chr, Patrick Finglass et al.•Sophocles•2018

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• Theatre and Metatheatre

  Open Access•Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, Elodie Paillard et al.•Theatre and Metatheatre•2021

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• Knowledge and Authority in the Choral Voice of Euripidean Tragedy

  Donald J Mastronarde•Syllecta classica•1999

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• Predatory” Goddesses

  Mary R Lefkowitz•Hesperia The Journal of the…•2002

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• Impiety’ and ‘Atheism’ in Euripides' Dramas

  Open Access•Mary R Lefkowitz•The Classical Quarterly•1989

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• The End of Euripides' Andromache

  Open Access•Alan H Sommerstein•The Classical Quarterly•1988

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• Actors' interpolations in Greek tragedy

  Denys Lionel Page•Actors' interpolations in Greek…•1987

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• Sophocles

  Open Access•R P Winnington-Ingram, R P Winnington‐ingram•Sophocles•1980

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• The Poetics of Closure

  Open Access•Matthew S Santirocco, Matthew Santirocco•Ramus•1984

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• Comment Terminer Une Ode

  P H Schrijvers•Mnemosyne•1973

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• Actors and Audience. A Study of Asides and Related Conventions in Greek Drama

  David Sider, David Bain•The American Journal of Philology•1978

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• Ritual Irony

  Open Access•Helene P Foley•Ritual Irony•2019

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• Tibullus 2.6

  M D Reeve, Matthew Reeve•Phoenix•1984

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