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Salve,

On Saturday, February 1, 2003, 11:39:03 AM, E.Moncada scripsit:

> "Sophocles long ago heard it on the Aegean..."   Do we know what lines [if any] Arnold was specifically referring to?   EJM

An apparently-first-year-English paper on the www claims it's an
allusion to the Antigone:

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Marathon/6193/essay_on_dover_beach.htm

Various other (better) sites suggest an allusion to Thucydides as
well (not in those lines, obviously):

http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/victorian/authors/arnold/touche4.html


Nice bibliography for Dover Beach attached to:

http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poem89.html

By the way ... in the course of surfing for this one, I came
across Arnold's "On Translating Homer: Last Words":

http://www.ajdrake.com/etexts/texts/Arnold/Works/on_trans_homer_last_w_1862.pdf

Hope that is useful ... not much free time today ...

dm

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