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Page vii
... poet . He had a patriotic motive , arising from his strong conservative opinions , for the constitution of the plot of the third play . The authority of the ancient court of Areopagus was menaced with diminution , if not extinc- tion ...
... poet . He had a patriotic motive , arising from his strong conservative opinions , for the constitution of the plot of the third play . The authority of the ancient court of Areopagus was menaced with diminution , if not extinc- tion ...
Page xv
... poet , the criminals merely die by the hand of one avenger : in the modern drama , re- morse is not omitted ; the wife , more daring at first , breaks down first , and dies in phrensied anguish ; the husband rushes to the battle - field ...
... poet , the criminals merely die by the hand of one avenger : in the modern drama , re- morse is not omitted ; the wife , more daring at first , breaks down first , and dies in phrensied anguish ; the husband rushes to the battle - field ...
Page xvii
... poets whom twenty centuries , with all the contrasts of ancient and modern thought , divide from one another . V. The Scene of the Agamemnon is laid at Argos : see 11. 24 , 462 , 738. Yet the royal seat of Agamemnon , described as such ...
... poets whom twenty centuries , with all the contrasts of ancient and modern thought , divide from one another . V. The Scene of the Agamemnon is laid at Argos : see 11. 24 , 462 , 738. Yet the royal seat of Agamemnon , described as such ...
Page xviii
... poet does not mention the city seems to indicate that its fate excited little or no sympathy in contemporary Greece . If the Argive topography of Aeschylus is thus indefinite and negative , that of Sophocles is elaborately wrong . In ...
... poet does not mention the city seems to indicate that its fate excited little or no sympathy in contemporary Greece . If the Argive topography of Aeschylus is thus indefinite and negative , that of Sophocles is elaborately wrong . In ...
Page xx
... century , and sup- posed by some to have been copied from an uncially written codex , though more probably it is a copy of such a copy . Of the Agamemnon , it exhibits only 11. 1-286 ( 1-310 , Dind . Poet . Sc INTRODUCTION ...
... century , and sup- posed by some to have been copied from an uncially written codex , though more probably it is a copy of such a copy . Of the Agamemnon , it exhibits only 11. 1-286 ( 1-310 , Dind . Poet . Sc INTRODUCTION ...
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