Talk:Epigoni (play)

Note

Although an article about the Greek myth on Epigonoi already exists, I created this article for the play specifically, since more about it will (hopefully) come to light as Oxford continues to study the documents. Following other examples (see The Birds (play) and The Clouds), I named the article in English rather than in Greek.--Canoeguy81 18:56, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Identification as part of The Progeny

How are the scholars able to identify the small fragment found as part of that play by that particular author?

• I imagine it's always somewhat conjectural, though many such things are in related fields too (going through RISM (music)'s manuscripts and published works, the identification of composer or text author is often "ascertained" rather than definitely on the score, e.g. and sometimes more conjectural than that. Similarly, I know from eg reading the Arden edition of "As You Like It" and its interesting preface, that a lot of editorial judgment has had to go into creating critical texts of most Shakespeare plays, something that I should have realized anyway...) I wouldn't mind an article here just about how this new technology is applied to expanding the corpus of ancient texts, though; it seems fascinating. (I mean that entirely sincerely, if there's any hint of doubt.) ELSchissel (talk) 14:23, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Name

The original author above gives the reasoning for giving a translation of the title as title of the entry—Aristophanes plays are sometimes called by their translated name. This doesn't apply to the Epigoni as it is an established mythological and literary term. Hence the name change. The Cardiff Chestnut (talk) 21:37, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

• I thought this was about Aeschylus - ah, no, Sophocles, my mistake. ELSchissel (talk) 14:24, 6 September 2021 (UTC)