title: The Identity of Subject in Aeschylus, Cho. 32–36
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metadata.value: Almazova, Nina A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-07-10T18:46:08Z
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metadata.value: 2018-07-10T18:46:08Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Nina A. Almazova. The Identity of Subject in Aeschylus, Cho. 32–36. Philologia Classica 2018, 13(1), 181–188.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu20.2018.114
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/10395
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metadata.value: In the parodos of the Choephori by Aeschylus the chorus sings of a nightmare that made Clytemnestra
  send libations to the grave of Agamemnon in a vain attempt to pacify his wrath and
  escape vengeance. The subject of Cho. 32–36 is described as ὀρθόθριξ δόμων ὀνειρόμαντις,
  but the identity of the ὀνειρόμαντις is obscure. The text of the passage is not sound, so
  various emendations have been attempted which presuppose different interpretations of its
  subject. The proposal of F. Blass to delete Φοῖβος in v. 32 seems the most convincing. This
  word was probably an interpolation aimed at inserting an explicitly named subject into the
  text. However, Φοῖβος is most implausible as a subject, since Apollo has nothing to do with
  grim underworld divinities as well as with sending prophetic dreams. Fear would be semantically
  suitable, but it is rendered improbable by the words περὶ φόβῳ in v. 35: if inserted into
  the text, the noun φόβος would become both a subject and a secondary element of the same
  sentence. Several other candidates proposed so far, such as Clytemnestra, φοῖτος, οἶκτος,
  are also implausible. The dream of Clytemnestra as a subject suits the context perfectly,
  but it could be hardly called “an interpreter of dreams”. Yet Aeschylus is fond of rethinking
  the sense of compounds according to their etymological potential. The paper argues that
  ὀνειρόμαντις is used in the meaning ‘Dream the prophet’, i.e. ‘prophetic dream’.
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 13; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Aeschylus
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metadata.value: Choephori
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metadata.value: Clytemnestra’s nightmare
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Greek compounds
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ὀνειρόμαντις
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Identity of Subject in Aeschylus, Cho. 32–36
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metadata.value: Article
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