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Page vii
... three tragedies must be regarded as con- stituting one great whole ; three acts , as it were , of one plot . In the first play , the Agamemnon , is ' the Crime . ' The victorious king , returning from Troy , is murdered b 2.
... three tragedies must be regarded as con- stituting one great whole ; three acts , as it were , of one plot . In the first play , the Agamemnon , is ' the Crime . ' The victorious king , returning from Troy , is murdered b 2.
Page ix
... reach it . In short , Aeschylus believes in predestina- tion as strongly as the author of the Koran or the great Genevese interpreter of the Bible . 3. But , as the Furies , avengers of Crime TO THE FIRST EDITION . ix.
... reach it . In short , Aeschylus believes in predestina- tion as strongly as the author of the Koran or the great Genevese interpreter of the Bible . 3. But , as the Furies , avengers of Crime TO THE FIRST EDITION . ix.
Page x
... crime ( this is rather dμapría ) or even wickedness in the abstract ( this is rather Svoσéßeia or Bpis ) : but it often means the madness attending crime , as in Homer ( ' Aλe§ávdpov évek ' тŋs ) and , oftener , the woe and the curse ...
... crime ( this is rather dμapría ) or even wickedness in the abstract ( this is rather Svoσéßeia or Bpis ) : but it often means the madness attending crime , as in Homer ( ' Aλe§ávdpov évek ' тŋs ) and , oftener , the woe and the curse ...
Page xi
... crime , as it might be , in part at least , the motive . See the choral ode , 640 , and the ana- paests following ... crimes and was slain in consequence by Orestes . Again , III . 253 & c . , Nestor gives Telemachus a detailed account ...
... crime , as it might be , in part at least , the motive . See the choral ode , 640 , and the ana- paests following ... crimes and was slain in consequence by Orestes . Again , III . 253 & c . , Nestor gives Telemachus a detailed account ...
Page xii
... crime to her treachery : τείως μοι ἀδελφεὸν ἄλλος ἔπεφνεν λάθρη , ἀνωιστί , δόλῳ οὐλομένης αλόχοιο . Virgil , a careful student of Greek dramatic poetry , adopts the Aeschylean story : Ipse Mycenaeus magnorum ductor Achivom coniugis ...
... crime to her treachery : τείως μοι ἀδελφεὸν ἄλλος ἔπεφνεν λάθρη , ἀνωιστί , δόλῳ οὐλομένης αλόχοιο . Virgil , a careful student of Greek dramatic poetry , adopts the Aeschylean story : Ipse Mycenaeus magnorum ductor Achivom coniugis ...
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