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Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus, section 11 (search)
to this place because Poseidon Hippius was worshipped there, and served to distinguish this extramural Colonus from the Colonus Agoraeus, or "Market Hill," within the walls of AthensIn the district of Melitè (see map): cp. below, p. 5.. In the absence of a distinguishing epithet, "Colonus" would usually mean Colonus Hippius; Thucydides calls it simply Colonus, and describes it as "a sanctuary (i(ero/n) of Poseidon." His mention of it occurs in connection with the oligarchical conspiracy of 411 B.C., when Peisander and his associates chose Colonus, instead of the Pnyx, as the place of meeting for the Assembly which established the government of the Four Hundred. It is a fair, though not a necessary, inference from the historian's words that the assembly was held within the sacred precinct of Poseidon, with the double advantage for the oligarchs of limiting the numbers and of precluding forcible interruptionThuc. 8. 67 cune/klh|san th\n e)kklhsi/an e)s to\n *kolwno/n （e)/sti de\ i(ero\
Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus, section 19 (search)
nd through" ("durch und durch politisch"), held that it was composed just before the beginning of the Peloponnesian war, with the purpose of kindling Athenian patriotism. Another conjecture is that the play was prepared for the Great Dionysia of 411 B.C., just after the Government of Four Hundred had been established by the assembly held at Colonus; that Colonus Hippius may have been "in some special sense the Knights' Quarter"; that hence the play would commend itself to a class of men among wh(to my apprehension) a probable one. That the play would have been especially popular with the Athenian Knights need not be doubted; but it is another thing to suppose that the composition of the play had regard to their political sympathies in 411 B.C. In a time of public excitement any drama bearing on the past of one's country is pretty sure to furnish some words that will seem fraught with a present meaning. We may grant that such a meaning would sometimes, perhaps, have been found by an A