Wiener Studien 129/2016, pp. 63-70, 2016/08/05
Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie, Patristik und lateinische Tradition
This paper discusses an incoherence in the strophe of the second stasimon of Euripides’ Ion: against the general gist of the song and the entire play, Ion seems to be accused of having planned to intrude into Creusa’s family by employing an untruthful oracle. That sense, however, is only produced by a number of conjectures. If the interference with the transmission is reduced, the train of thought becomes coherent again: the strophe then deals with Ion’s integration into existing social structures.
