Note 59 — Chapter I · DRAMATIC CONTESTS AT ATHENS

[Other critics, however, suppose that the final scene was added in some later revision of the play, after Sophocles’ Antigone had been written, or when it became customary to present single plays of Aeschylus (see below, p. 74), which would often be shorter than those of other poets, and might therefore be lengthened by the addition of a scene.]