Marcovich Miroslav. Three-word Trimeter in Greek Tragedy

Königstein/Ts.: Anton Hain, 1984. — 214 p. — (Beiträge zur klassischen Philologie 158).A tragic iambic trimeter accommodates an average of five to six accented words. When a playwright chooses to slow down the flow of his narrative by employing only three massive words in a single line, he must have a special reason for resorting to such a device. Consider TWT Eumenides 182. Apollo is ordering the Furies out of his temple while threatening to send at them "a winged glistering snake" from his bow wrought in gold.