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Greek tragedy

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I. GREEK

Names of plays, etc., in capitals

ΑΘΛΑ, 5.

ΑΙΑΣ, 132-6.

— ΜΑΣΤΙΓΟΦΟΡΟΣ, 132-6.

ΑΙΤΝΑΙΑΙ, 119.

ΑΛΚΗΣΤΙΣ, 186-92.

ἀναβαίνω, 54 n.

ἀνάγκη, 38.

ἀναγνωστικοί, 32, 293 n.

ἀναίδεια, 325.

ἀνάκρουσις, 342 n.

ΑΝΔΡΟΜΑΧΗ, 219-28.

ἀνὴρ δίψυχος, 311.

ΑΝΤΙΓΟΝΗ, 136-41.

ἀντιλαβή, 181 n.

ἀντιστροφή, 344.

ἀπέδωκε, 3 n.

ἀπὸ σκηνῆς, 57.

ἄτη, 129.

αὖθις, 83.

ΑΧΑΙΩΝ ΣΥΛΛΟΓΟΣ, 174.

ΑΧΙΛΛΕΩΣ ΕΡΑΣΤΑΙ, 174.

ΒΑΚΧΑΙ, 277-85.

βαλλάντιον, 34 n.

ΒΑΣΣΑΡΑΙ, 117.

ΒΑΣΣΑΡΙΔΕΣ, 117.

βρῦτον, 118 n.

δαιμόνιον σημεῖον, 163 n.

διαίρεσις, 336 n.

ΔΙΔΑΣΚΑΛΙΑΙ, 62.

δράσαντι παθεῖν, 110 n., 129 and n.

ΕΚΑΒΗ, 215-9.

ἐκσυρίττειν, 83 n.

ΕΚΤΟΡΟΣ ΛΥΤΡΑ, 118.

ἐλελελεῦ, 25.

ΕΛΕΝΗ, 258-64.

ΕΛΕΥΣΙΝΙΟΙ, 119.

ἐπεισόδια, 4 n.

ΕΠΙΔΗΜΙΑΙ, 23 n.

ἐπὶ σκηνῆς, 57, 59.

ἐπὶ τῆς σκηνῆς, 54.

ἐπί τινος μετεώρου, 57.

ἐπῳδικόν, 344.

ἐπῳδός, 345 n.

ΕΥΜΕΝΙΔΕΣ, 111-7.

εὐριπιδαριστοφανίζειν, 19 n.

ΗΔΩΝΟΙ, 117.

ΗΛΕΚΤΡΑ, 141-5, 252-8.

ΗΛΙΑΔΕΣ, 119.

ἡμιχόρια, 78.

ΗΡΑΚΛΕΙΔΑΙ, 200-5.

ΗΡΑΚΛΗΣ ΜΑΙΝΟΜΕΝΟΣ, 228-34.

θεῖον, τὸ, 30.

θεός, 283.

ΘΕΡΙΣΤΑΙ, 192, 296.

θεωρικόν, τὸ, 82.

ΘΡΗΙΣΣΑΙ, 119.

θυμέλη, 51.

θυμός, 22, 198.

ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ, 84-6, 234-6.

ἴκρια, 81.

ΙΠΠΟΛΥΤΟΣ ΚΑΛΥΠΤΟΜΕΝΟΣ, 205 n.

— ΣΤΕΦΑΝΗΦΟΡΟΣ, 205-15.

— ΣΤΕΦΑΝΙΑΣ, 205-15.

ΙΦΙΓΕΝΕΙΑ Η ΕΝ ΑΥΛΙΔΙ, 285-9.

— — — ΤΑΥΡΟΙΣ, 247-52.

ΙΧΝΕΥΤΑΙ, 175-6, 289 n.

ΙΩΝ, 236-43.

ΚΑΒΕΙΡΟΙ, 119.

καταβαίνω, 54 n.

καταλήγω, 334 n.

κερκίδες, 51.

κλίμακες, 51.

κόθορνος, 69.

κομμοί, 74.

κομμός, 107.

κορυφαῖος, 78.

κρηπίς, 68.

ΚΥΚΛΩΨ, 289-91.

κῶλον, 343.

λογαοιδικός, 341 n.

λογεῖον, 52.

ΛΥΚΟΥΡΓΕΙΑ, 117.

ΜΕΓΑ ΔΡΑΜΑ, 24 and n.

ΜΕΛΑΝΙΠΠΗ ΔΕΣΜΩΤΙΣ, 305 n.

— Η ΣΟΦΗ, 305 n.

μεσῳδικόν, 344.

ΜΗΔΕΙΑ, 192-9.

μηχανή, 65.

μύρμηκος ἀτραπούς, 26 n.

ΜΥΡΜΙΔΟΝΕΣ, 118.

ΝΕΑΝΙΣΚΟΙ, 117.

ΝΗΡΗΙΔΕΣ, 118.

ΝΙΟΒΗ, 119.

νόμοι, 72.

ὄγκος, 69.

ΟΙΔΙΠΟΥΣ ΕΠΙ ΚΟΛΩΝΩΙ, 167-73.

— ΤΥΡΑΝΝΟΣ, 145-54.

οἱ ἐν τῷ φανερῷ θάνατοι, 45 and n.

ΟΙ ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ ΘΗΒΑΣ, 89.

οἰκεῖα πράγματα, 20.

ὀκρίβας, 56, 57.

ΟΡΕΣΤΗΣ, 268-77.

ὀρχήστρα, 50.

παλινῳδία, 360.

παραχορήγημα, 71.

παρασκήνια, 51.

παρεπιγραφή, 175.

πάροδοι, 51.

περίακτοι, 63.

περίοδος, 343.

ΠΕΡΣΑΙ, 86.

προεδρία, 81.

ΠΡΟΜΗΘΕΥΣ ΔΕΣΜΩΤΗΣ, 91-8.

— ΛΥΟΜΕΝΟΣ, 92-3.

— ΠΥΡΦΟΡΟΣ, 92-3.

προπομποί, 116.

προῳδικόν, 344.

πρωταγωνιστής, 72.

ῥαβδοφόροι, 82.

ΡΗΣΟΣ, 291-5.

ῥοῖβδος, 175 n.

σεμναί, 113 n.

σκηνή, 52, 54.

σμικρὸν ἔπος, 171 and n.

σμικρὸς λόγος, 171 and n.

Σπάρτην ἔλαχες, ταύτην κόσμει, 295.

στίχος, 359.

στροφή, 344.

συγκοπή, 341 n.

συνάφεια, 330 n.

ΣΥΝΔΕΙΠΝΟΙ, 174.

ΣΥΝΕΚΔΗΜΗΤΙΚΟΣ, 23 n.

συνίζησις, 332.

τὰ ἀπὸ τῆς σκηνῆς, 54.

τετραλογία, 61 n.

τί ταῦτα πρὸς τὸν Διόνυσον; 2 n.

τὸ δὲ δρᾶμα τῶν δευτέρων, 223 and n.

τὸ θεῖον, 30.

τὸ θεωρικόν, 82.

τονή, 341, 347, 352, 355, 360.

τράγος, 62 n.

τραγῳδία, 62 n.

ΤΡΑΧΙΝΙΑΙ, 154-60.

τριβή, 38.

ΤΡΩΙΑΔΕΣ, 243-6.

τύχη, 28, 32.

ὑποκριτής, 1.

ὑπομνήματα, 22, 23 n.

ὑπορχήματα, 78.

ΦΙΛΟΚΤΗΤΗΣ, 161.

ΦΟΙΝΙΣΣΑΙ, 264-8.

φράσις τῶν πραγμάτων, 316 n.

ΦΡΥΓΕΣ, 118.

φύσις, 318.

ΧΟΗΦΟΡΟΙ, 106-10.

ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ ΠΑΣΧΩΝ, 41.

ΨΥΧΟΣΤΑΣΙΑ, 120.

II. PLACES, Etc.

A. = Aristophanes, Æ. = Æschylus, E. = Euripides, S. = Sophocles, Sh. = Shakespeare.

Abdera, 298.

Acharnæ, in Acharnians, 296.

Achelous, in Trachiniæ, 160.

— 304 n.

Acropolis, 14, 49, 239.

— in Eumenides, 113.

Ægospotami, 13, 182, 324.

Æthiopia, in Andromeda, 299.

Ætolia, in Cresphontes, 307-8.

Alexandria, Library of, 39.

— Pleiad of, 39.

— Theatrical activity in, 3rd century B.C., 39.

Amphipolis, 294.

Arachnæus, Mount, in Agamemnon, 101.

Arden, Forest of, 63.

Areopagus, in Eumenides, 112 ff., 128 n.

Argolid plain, in S.’s Electra, 63.

Argos, in Agamemnon, 99 ff.

— — Choephorœ, 106.

— — Eumenides, 112.

— — Supplices of Æ., 84.

— — E.’s Electra, 253.

— — — Heracleidæ, 200 ff.

— — — Orestes, 268 ff.

— — — Supplices, 234 n., 235.

— — — Telephus, 295.

— 316, 321.

Asia Minor, Græco-Roman theatres in, 59 n.

Asopus, plain of, in Agamemnon, 124.

Athens, 228-9, 244, 252 n., 307, 312, 324-5.

— Agathon of, 21.

— and drama, 3, 5.

— — Euripides, 317 ff.

— Athena’s temple in, 63.

— in Eumenides, 111 ff.

— — Œd. Coloneus, 168 ff., 185.

— — E.’s Erechtheus, 297.

— — — Hippolytus, 205 ff., 213.

— — — Ion, 236 ff.

— — — Supplices, 234 n., 235.

— local cults of, in Æ., 128.

— Phrynichus of, 6.

— Sophocles of, 12.

Athens’ war with Eleusis, 119.

Athos, Mt., in Agamemnon, 101.

Attica, 4, 279.

— and Furies, 131.

— E.’s cenotaph in, 18.

— in Eumenides, 113.

— — Heracleidæ, 200.

— — Medea, 194.

Aulis, 247, 270.

— in Iph. at A., 285 ff.

Bradfield College, Gk. plays at, 55.

Byzantium, 313.

— Homer, the tragedian of? 40.

— Python of? 39.

Caria, Mausolus, k. of, 38.

Catana, Python of? 39.

Chæronea, battle of, 31.

Chapel, Sistine, 102.

Chios, Ion of, 21 ff.

— Sophocles in, 15.

Chryse, in S.’s Philoctetes, 161.

Cithæron, Mt., in Œd. Tyr., 147 ff.

— — — E.’s Bacchæ, 277 ff.

Colchis, Mt., in E.’s Medea, 192 ff.

Colonus, Eumenides at, 172.

— in Œd. Coloneus, 168 ff.

— Sophocles’ home, 172.

— — song, 71.

Congo, Upper, 248.

Corinth, 22.

— and drama, 3.

— in Œd. Tyr., 147.

— — Medea, 192 ff., 313.

Crete, in Hippolytus, 206 ff.

Cynthus, 249.

Cyzicus, 167.

Delium, 234 n.

Delphi, 257.

— in Choephorœ, 108, 110.

— — Eumenides, 111 ff., 63.

— — S.’s Electra, 142.

— — — Œd. Tyr., 147 ff.

— — E.’s Andromache, 220 ff.

— — — Ion, 236 ff., 314.

— — — Iph. T., 247 ff.

— — — Medea, 193.

— — — Phœnissæ, 264.

Dodona, in E.’s Andromache, 221.

Egypt, 184.

— in Prom. V., 94.

— — Supplices of Æ., 84 ff.

— — Helena of E., 259 ff., 322.

Eleusis, Æ. of, 10, 119.

— mysteries of, 10, 11, 173.

Eleutheræ, priest of Dionysus of, 80.

England and Education, 324.

Eretria, Achæus of, 21, 25.

— Menedemus of, 25.

Eridanus, R., in Hippolytus, 208.

Etna, Mt., in Cyclops, 289 f.

— — eruption of, in Prom. V., 91.

Eubœa, in Agamemnon, 101.

— — Trachiniæ, 154.

Forest of Arden, in Shakespeare, 63.

Gela, 11.

Great Britain, dramatic renaissance in, v.

Hades, 86, 95, 202-3.

— in Critias’ Pirithous, 29.

— — E.’s Herc. Fur., 228 ff.

— Sophocles in, 14 n.

Halicarnassus, Dionysius of, 306 n.

Helene, island of, 262.

Hellas, 89, 248.

Hull, 248.

Hydaspes R., 39.

Icaria, Thespis of, 4.

Ilium, 245.

Jhelum R., 39.

Lemnos, in Æ.’s Philoctetes, 120.

— — E.’s Hypsipyle, 304.

— — S.’s Philoctetes, 161 ff.

Lenæon, 49.

Lesbos, in Æ.’s Bassarids, 117.

Macedonia, Archelaus, k. of, 18.

— E.’s death in, 15, 277.

Macistus, Mt., in Agamemnon, 124.

Malea, 275.

Marathon, 122, 163, 325.

— Æ. at, 10.

— in Heracleidæ, 200.

Melos, sack of, 244.

— Venus of, 182.

Messenia, in E.’s Cresphontes, 307.

Miletus, capture of, 494 B.C., 7.

Molottia, in Andromache, 221.

Mount Arachnæus, see Arachnæus.

— Athos, see Athos.

— Cithæron, see C.

— Etna, see E.

— Œta, see Œ.

— Parnassus, see P.

Mysia, in E.’s Telephus, 295-6.

Nauplia, 275.

Nemea, in E.’s Hypsipyle, 304.

Nile, R., in E.’s Helena, 322.

Nine Ways, 294.

Odessa, 248.

Odeum at Athens, 56.

Œnophyta, 184.

Œta, Mt., in Trachiniæ, 155.

Omphalos at Delphi, in Eumenides, 111.

Othrys, Mt., in Alcestis, 188.

Oxyrhynchus, 18, 304.

Parnassus, Mt., in Ion, 237.

Parthenon, 14, 182.

Peiræus, 49, 245.

Peloponnese, 6, 304.

Persia, in Persæ, 123-4.

Phaselis, Theodectes of, 36.

Pheræ, Alexander of, 35.

— in Alcestis, 186.

Phlius, Pratinas of, 6.

Phocis, 249.

Phthia, in Andromache, 219 ff.

Platæa, battle of, in Persæ, 87.

Propylæa, 14.

Punjaub, 39.

Salamis, 7, 12, 14.

— Æ. at, 10.

— E. at, 17.

— E. born at, 17.

— in Persæ, 87.

Saronic gulf, in Agamemnon, 124.

Scyros, in S.’s Philoctetes, 162.

Scythia, in Prom. V., 93.

Seaford, Sussex, 354 n.

Shrine of Thetis, in Andromache, 219 ff.

Sicilian sea, in E.’s Electra, 253.

Sicily, 119, 313.

— Æ. in, 10.

Sicyon, 3 n., 22.

— Neophron of, 21.

Sistine Chapel, 102.

South Russia, 247-8.

Sparta, in E.’s Telephus, 295.

— — A.’s Acharnians, 296.

Susa, Xerxes’ palace at, in Persæ, 88.

Syracuse, E. in, 17.

— Hiero of, 10.

Tauri, in Iph. T., 321.

Tegea, Aristarchus of, 21-2.

Tent of Agamemnon, 52.

Thebes, in Seven.

— — Antigone, 137 ff.

— — Œd. Col., 168 ff., 185.

— — Œd. Tyr., 145 ff.

— — E.’s Antiope, 298.

— — — Bacchæ, 277 ff.

— — — Herc. Fur., 228 ff.

— — — Hypsipyle, 304-5.

— — — Phœnissæ, 264 ff.

— — — Supplices, 235.

The Marshes, Athens, 49.

Thessaly, in Alcestis, 186 ff.

— — Andromache, 219 ff.

Thibet, 248.

Thrace and Athens, 294-5.

— in Hecuba, 215 ff.

Tomb of Achilles, in Hecuba, 216.

— — Agamemnon, in E.’s Electra, 253.

— — Clytæmnestra, in E.’s Orestes, 269.

— — Darius, in Æ.’s Persæ, 64.

— — Proteus, in E.’s Helena, 259.

Trachis, in Trachiniæ, 154 ff.

Troad, 295.

Trœzen, in Hippolytus, 205 ff.

Troy, 118, 270.

— in Agamemnon, 99 ff.

— — Æ.’s Philoctetes, 120.

— — — Weighing of the Souls, 120.

— — S.’s Ajax, 132 ff.

— — — Laocoon, 174.

— — — Philoctetes, 161 ff.

— — E.’s Electra, 253.

— — — Hecuba, 215 ff.

— — — Helena, 259 ff.

— — — I. A., 285 ff.

— — — Rhesus, 291 ff.

— — — Telephus, 295.

— — — Troades, 243.

Upper Congo, 248.

Verona, its scenery, in Sh., 63.

Venusberg, 283.

Venice, its scenery, in Sh., 63.

III. PERSONS AND WORKS

A. = Aristophanes, Æ. = Æschylus, Ar. = Aristotle, E. = Euripides, S. = Sophocles, Sh. = Shakespeare. Names of authors in small capitals, of works in italics.

Acamas, in Heracleidæ, 200 ff.

Achæus of Eretria, 21, 25.

— — — his Philoctetes, 25.

Acharnians, see Aristophanes.

Achilles, 176, 226, 319.

— in Æ., 20.

— — — Myrmidons, 118.

— — — Nereids, 118.

— — — Phrygians, 118.

— — — Weighing of Souls, 120.

— — E. Andromache, 220.

— — — I. Aul., 285 ff., 317, 322.

— — — Telephus, 295-6.

— — Homer’s Iliad, 119, 288.

— — S. Philoctetes, 162.

— — tomb of, in E. Hecuba, 216.

Achilles, of Aristarchus, 23.

Actor, in E. Philoctetes, 296.

Admetus, in E. Alcestis, 187 ff.

A Doll’s House, see Ibsen.

Ad Quintum Fratrem, see Cicero.

Adrastus, 3 n.

— k. of Argos, in Æ. Septem, 89.

— in E. Hypsip., 305.

— — Suppl., 234 ff.

Adversus indoctos, see Lucian.

Æantides, 40.

Ægeus, k. of Athens, in E. Medea, 193, 312, 322-3.

— — — — — Neophron’s M., 21.

Ægisthus in Æ. Agamemnon, 79, 100 ff.

— — — Choeph., 106 ff.

— — E. Electra, 253.

— — E. Orestes, 268 ff.

— — S. Electra, 141 ff.

Ægyptus, in Æ. Supplices, 84.

Ælian, his Varia Historia, xiv. 40, p. 35 n.; ii. 8, p. 243 n.

Æneas, in S. Laocoon, 174.

— — — Rhesus, 291 ff.

Æneid, see Vergil.

Æolus in E. Melanippe, 305.

Ærope, see Carcinus.

Æschines, 70 and n., 83.

Æschylus, 4, 5, 6, 10-17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 38, 70, 75-6, 82, 84 ff., 173, 177, 179, 180, 182, 192, 249, 275, 276 n., 284, 293, 296, 297, 309, 311, 325, 357.

— a ballet-master, 78.

— and Até, 129.

— — Chthonian religion, 130.

— — Conscience, 130.

— — Euripides, 121, 315-7, etc.

— — Fate, 125, 130.

— — Homer, 118.

— — Olympians, 130.

— — Zeus, 213.

— as dramatist, 125 ff.

— — literary artist, 120-5.

— creator of tragic diction, 122.

— death, 11.

— desk, 34.

— epitaph, 10 n.

— general appreciation of, 120 ff.

— grandeur of language, 121.

— his interest in politics, 128 and n.

— in Horace Ars Poet., 56.

— invented dress of tragic actors, 69.

— metaphors, 123.

— metre, 334.

— picturesqueness in characterisation, language and structure, 123-8.

— religious views, 128.

— simplicity of structure and language, 122, 126.

— Agamemnon, vi, 16, 55, 62, 64, 71, 77, 86, 99-106, 109, 110, 126, 213 and n., 245, 317, 338, 345.

— — beacon-speech in, 124.

— — chariots and horses in, 64.

— — chorus in, 79.

— — eccyclema in, 66.

— — herald in, 73.

— — watchman in, 124.

[ll. partly or wholly quoted, 2, 160-83, 184-249, 494-5, 750-7, 975 sqq., 988 sqq., 1147, 1434, 1530 sqq.]

— Choephorœ, 16, 20, 56, 64, 104, 106-10, 126, 142, 253, 258, 270, 279.

— — chorus in, 79.

— — invocation of Ag.’s shade in, 74.

— — nurse in, 124.

— — tomb in, 64.

[ll. 313 sq., 451-2, 647, 870-4, 889, 900, 930, 1075-6.]

— Eumenides, 42 n., 55 n., 56, 68, 110, 111-7, 121, 128, 217, 249.

— — chorus in, 76.

— — dress of Furies in, 69.

— — eccyclema in, 67.

— — jury in, 70.

— — propompi in, 71.

— — scene changes in, 63.

— — shade of Clytæmnestra in, 107 n.

[ll. 116, 137-8, 283, 398-401, 517-9, 640-51, 681-710, 747, 788 sq., 886.]

— Niobe, 119.

— Persæ, 8, 9, 10, 18, 38, 47, 64, 86-9, 123, 125.

— — ghost in, 107 n.

— — metre in, 356.

— — only extant tragedy on non-mythological subject, 87.

— — and Phrynichus’ Phœnissæ, 8, 9.

[ll. 81 sq., 115, 126 sq., 346, 361-2, 395, 480-514, 815.]

— Prometheus Vinctus, 57, 65, 91-8, 109, 124, 125, 128, 244.

[ll. 12, 15, 89-90, 115, 170, 350-2, 415-20, 993, 1068.]

— Septem contra Thebas, 20, 89-91, 95, 123, 125, 267 n., 268 n.

[ll. 375 sqq., 493-4, 591-4, 689-91, 895 sqq.]

— Supplices, 7, 12, 76, 77, 84-6, 95, 121, 123, 124, 126.

— — chorus in, 76.

[ll. 12, 91-5, 230-1, 418 sqq., 582 sqq., 608, 656, 836-7, 991-4, 994-1013, 1068.]

— Amymone, 85;

Bassaræ or Bassarides, 117;

Cabiri, 119;

Danaides, 85, 128;

Daughters of the Sun, 119;

Edoni, 117;

Egyptians, 85;

Glaucus of Potniæ, 87;

Laius, 90;

Lycurgea (trilogy), 117;

Lycurgus (satyric play), 117;

Men of Eleusis, 119;

Men of Persia (= Persæ), 86;

Myrmidons, 118;

Nereides, 118;

Niobe, 119 [Fr. ap. Plato “Rep.” qd.];

Œdipus, 90;

Oresteia (trilogy), 11, 85, 92, 95, 98 ff., 123, 126, 128, 134;

Philoctetes, 119;

Phineus, 87;

Phrygians, 118;

Prometheus (satyric play), 87 and n.;

Prometheus the Fire-bringer, 92-3;

Proteus (sat. pl.) 98 and n.;

P. Unbound, 93;

Ransom of Hector, 118;

Sphinx (satyric pl.), 90;

Thracian Women, 119;

Weighing of Souls, 120;

Women of Etna, 10, 119;

Youths, 117;

Women of the Fawn-skin, 117.

Æthiopica, see Heliodorus.

Æthra, in E. Supplices, 234 ff.

Agamemnon, 76, 254.

— in Æ. Agam., 89 ff., 125.

— — — Myrmidons, 118.

— — E. Hecuba, 216 ff.

— — — I. Aul., 285 ff.

— — — Orestes, 270.

— — — Telephus, 295-6.

— — — Troades, 243 ff.

— — S. Ajax, 132 ff.

— palace of, in S. Electra, 141 ff.

— shade of, invoked in Æ. Choeph., 74, 107 and n. and 110.

— tent of, 52.

— tomb of, 64, 106 (Choeph.), 253 (E. El.).

Agamemnon, see Æ.

Agathon of Athens, 21, 25-9, 50 n., 55, 72, 77, 315.

— Antheus, 26.

— Anthos, 26.

— Fall of Troy, 27.

— Flower, 26.

Agave, in E. Bacchæ, 277 ff.

Agen, satyric drama, 38-9.

Ajax, 62.

— death of, on stage, 46.

— in S. Ajax, 132 ff., 177-8, 180, 185.

Ajax, see Sophocles.

Alcestis, in E. Alc., 186 ff.

— death of, on stage, 46.

Alcestis, see Euripides and Phrynichus.

Alcibiades, 82, 167, 236, 268 n.

Alcmæon, 46.

— in Astydamas, 31.

Alcmæon, etc., see Euripides.

Alcmena, 231;

in E. Heracleidæ, 200 ff.

Alcon, 13.

Alexander the Great, 29, 36, 39, 163, 313.

— — tragedian, 39, 40.

— — tyrant of Pheræ, 35, 38.

Alexander, see Euripides.

Alexandra, see Lycophron.

Alope, see Chœrilus.

Altgriechische Literatur, see Goethe.

Althæa, in Phrynichus’ Pleuroniæ, 7.

Amphiaraus, 235, in Æ. Septem, 91, 124.

— in Carcinus’ Thyestes, 35.

— — E. Hypsipyle, 304.

Amphiaraus, see Sophocles.

Amphion, in E. Antiope, 298.

Amphitryon, in E. Herc. Fur., 228 ff.

Amymone, see Æschylus.

Anacreon, 337 n.

Anatole France, vi, 326.

Anaxagoras, 17, 18, 307.

Andromache, 262;

in E. Andr., 225 ff.;

E. Troades, 243 ff.

Andromache, see Euripides.

Andromeda, in E. Andromeda, 8, 299 f.

Andromeda, see Euripides.

Anonymous Life of Sophocles, 15 n.

Antæus, in Phrynichus’ Antæus, 7.

Antæus, see Phrynichus.

Antheus, see Agathon.

Anthos, see Agathon.

Antigone, 64;

in Æ. Septem, 90-1;

in E. Phœn., 264 ff.;

in S. Antigone, 137 ff., 177-8;

in Œ. Col., 168 ff., 182.

Antigone, see Sophocles.

Antilochus, in Æ. Myrmidons, 118.

Antiope, in E. Antiope, 298.

Antiope, see Euripides.

Aphrodite, 85;

in Æ. Danaides, 128;

in E. Helena, 259;

in Hippol., 205 ff.;

in I. Aul., 285.

Apollo, 67, 69.

— his temple at Delphi, 63.

— in Æ. Bassarids, 117;

Choeph., 107-8;

Eumen., 85, 111 ff., 129;

in E. Alcestis, 186 ff.;

Androma., 220 ff., 226-7;

El., 252 ff.;

I. Taur., 247;

Orestes, 268 ff.;

in S. Ichneutæ, 2, 175.

Apuleius, 320.

Archelaus, actor, 298.

— k. of Macedonia, 18, 26.

Archemorus, in E. Hypsip., 304 and n.

Ares, 252;

in E. Phœn., 264.

Ariel’s song, 354.

Arion, 1, 3, 4, 5.

Aristarchus of Tegea, 21-3.

— Achilles, 23.

— Asclepius, 22.

Aristeas, 90.

Aristides, 91, 128 n.

Aristides, see Plutarch.

Aristophanes, 9, 14, 60, 226 n., 295, 322.

— and Æ., 118, 121-2.

— — E., 17 ff., 262, 312 ff., 318, 320.

— Acharnians, 54 n., 67, 296 [l. 732].

— Birds, 8 and n., 174 and n., 175 [ll. 100 sqq., 748-51].

— Clouds, 65, 67, 215 n. [ll. 225, 1165 sq.]

— Ecclesiazusæ, 54 n. [l. 1151].

— Fragments (Meineke, ii., p. 1177), 119 and n.

— Frogs, 7, 11 n., 19-20, 24 and n., 27, 72 and n., 74 and n., 80, 90, 118 n., 121, 122, 124, 126 and n., 215 and nn., 298, 304 n., 311-2 n. [ll. 53, 82, 84, 101, 297, 303, 689, 850, 886, 908 sqq., 911-3, 924-5, 932, 939 sqq., 948 sqq., 954-8, 959, 1021, 1041, 1043 sq., 1119 sqq., 1122, 1198-1247, 1261-95, 1304-8, 1309-63, 1314, 1348, 1378-1410, 1467.]

— Knights, 54 n., 67 [ll. 148, 1249].

— Peace, 24, 65, 83, 297 [l. 835].

— Thesmophoriazusæ, 26, 27, 28 and nn., 72 and n., 215 and nn., 262, 296, 298 [ll. 54 sqq., 100, 130 sqq., 275-6, 497, 547].

— Wasps, 8 and n., 54 n., 57 [ll. 220, 1342, 1514].

— see Parody.

Aristotle, vi, 3, 25, 54;

analysis of Features of Tragedy, 44-8.

— and Macbeth, 42;

and E. Medea, 322;

and the Three Unities, 42 n.

— and catharsis, 43;

definitions (of Tragedy, 43; of other things, 47);

mentions Carcinus, 35;

on Agathon’s Peripeteia, 27;

on Eurip., 312 ff.;

on origin of Tragedy, 2 n.;

on S. Œ. Tyr., 46-8;

standpoint of his criticism, 42;

taught and quoted Theodectes, 36;

value of his evidence, 42.

— Didascaliæ or Dramatic Productions, 62.

— Ethics, 11 n. [1111a, 1150b, 10], 83 and n. [X, 1175 B].

— Poetic, 3 n., 5, 11 n., 15 and n., 26 and n., 27 n., 31 and n., 32, 41 ff., 77 and n., 148, 151 and n., 174 n., 196 and n., 289 and n., 297 n., 307 n., and 308 n., 312 and n. [1447 B-1462 B qd. passim].

— Rhetoric, 32 and n., 61 and n., 139 and n. [II, 1400b, 1417b; III, i., III, xii. 2, xvi. 9].

— (Hypomnemata), 22 and n.

Aristoxenus, on Cola, 351.

Arnold, Matthew, 355-6;

Merope, 309;

Scholar-Gipsy, 323-4, 326.

Ars Poetica, see Horace.

Artemis, in E. Hippol., 205, 284 n.;

I. Aul., 285 ff.;

I. Taur., 247 ff.

Asclepius, 13.

Asclepius, see Aristarchus.

Astyanax, in E. Troades, 243 ff.

Astydamas (father and son), 31, 59.

— Hector, 31;

Parthenopæus, 31.

Astyoche, in S. Eurypylus, 176.

Athena, in Æ. Eumen., 111 ff., 317;

E. Andromeda, 301;

Heracleidæ, 201;

Ion, 236 ff.;

I. Taur., 247 ff.;

Philoct., 297;

Rhesus, 291 ff.;

Suppl., 234 ff.;

Troad., 243 ff.;

in S. Ajax, 132 ff.

Athena’s temple, in Eumen., 63.

Athenæus, 25 and n., 32 and n., 34 n., 39 n., 175 [III, 98 D; X, 451 C; XIII, 595 F; fragm. 10].

Atlas, in Æ. Prom. V., 128;

in E. Hippol., 208.

Atossa, in Æ. Persæ, 86 n., 87.

Atreidæ, palace of, in Agam., 124;

Atr. in S. Ajax, 136.

Atreus, house of, in S. Electra, 143; and 129.

Attic Theatre, see Haigh.

— Tragedy, see Haigh.

Aulus Gellius, on E., 17 and n. [XV, 20].

Bacchæ, see Euripides.

— Riddle of the, see Norwood.

Bacchantes, see Euripides.

Bacchus, in Bac., 277 ff.

Bacchylides, 24.

Badham on Helena, 263 n.

Bassanios, 73.

Bassaræ, -rides, see Æschylus.

Bellerophon, 65;

in E. Beller., 297.

Bellerophon, see Euripides.

Bentley, 23 n.

Bernard Shaw, see Shaw.

Bernhardy, Grundriss der griech. Litteratur, 40 n., 163 n. [II, ii. p. 72 and p. 370], 253 n. [II, ii., p. 490].

Bia, a mute in Æ. Prom. V., 92 n., 94.

Bion, son of Æ., 11.

Birds, see Aristophanes.

Böckh, on Rhesus, 294 n.

Boreas, in S. Orithyia, 175.

Boucher, Fr. painter, 34.

Bright, John, 348.

Brooke, Rupert, 358.

Browning, Mrs., on E., 324 n.

Bunyan, 23.

Butcher’s translation of Ar. Poetic, 4 n., 26 n., 44 n., 77.

Byron, on d. of Kirk White, 118 and n.

Cabiri, see Æschylus.

Cadmus, in E. Bacchæ, 277 ff.

— — — Phœn., 264.

Callimachus, 40.

Capaneus, in E. Supplices, 235.

Captain Osborne, in Vanity Fair, 319.

Capture of Miletus, see Phrynichus.

Carcinus, 34-6, 41;

Ærope, 35;

Medea, 35;

Œdipus, 35;

Thyestes, 35.

Carritt, E. F., The Theory of Beauty [p. 156], 320 and n.

Cassandra, 66;

in Æ. Agam., 99 ff., 245;

in E. Troad., 243 ff.

Cassiopeia, in E. Andromeda, 299.

Castor, in E. Electra, 252 n., etc.;

in Helena, 258 n., 259 ff.

Catasterismoi, see Eratosthenes.

Celebrants of the Thesmophoria, see Aristophanes Thesmophoriazusæ.

Centaur, see Chæremon.

Cephalus, in Hippol., 212.

Cepheus, in Andromeda, 299 f.

Cerberus, in Herc. Fur., 228 ff.

Cercyon, in Carcinus’ Alope, 35.

Chæremon, 32 ff., 41;

Centaur, 32;

Thyestes, 32;

Œneus, 33.

Cheiron, see Pherecrates.

Cherry Orchard, see Tchekov.

Children of Heracles, see Euripides.

Chiron, the Centaur, 98.

Choephorœ, see Æ.

Chœrilus, 5, 6;

Alope, 6;

Satyric drama, 5.

Christ and Prometheus, 97.

Christ, Geschichte der griech. Litt. [p. 210, etc.], 163 n., 294 n.

Christus Patiens, 41.

Chrysostom, Dio, see D.C.

Chrysothemis, in S. Electra, 141 ff., 152, 178-9.

Cibber, 9.

Cicero, Ad Q. Fratrem [II, xv. 3], 174 and n.;

Orator [51], 36.

Cimon, 23;

and Cimon, see Plutarch.

Clarendon (Earl of), vi.

Cleanthes, the philosopher, 39.

Cleisthenes, 3 n.

Cleon, 325.

Clito, mother of E., 17.

Clouds, see Aristophanes.

Clymene, in E. Phaethon, 301 ff.

Clytæmnestra, 46, 66, 70;

and Lady Macbeth, 104;

C.’s ghost, in Æ. Eumen., 111 ff.;

tomb, in E. Orestes, 269;

— in Æ. Agam., 73 and n., 99 ff.;

Choeph., 73 and n., 106 ff., 126.

— — E. Andromache, 220;

El., 252 ff.;

I. Aul., 285 ff., 322;

Orest., 268 ff.

— — in S. El., 141 ff.

Congreve, 36, 322.

Constance, in Sh. K. J., 234.

Copreus, in E. Heracleidæ and Homer Il., xv. 639; 200 and n.

Cordelia, in Sh. Lear, 137.

Corporal Mulvaney, 319.

Correggio, 33.

Crates, critic and philos., 37, 294.

Cratinus, 19 n.

Cratos, in Æ. Pr. V., 92 ff.

Creon, in E. Medea, 192 ff., 317;

Phœn., 264 ff.;

Suppl., 235.

— — S. Antigone, 137 ff., 177 n.;

Œ. Col., 168 ff., 217;

Œ. T., 145 ff., 178.

Cresphontes, in E. Cresph., 307.

Cresphontes, see Euripides.

Cretans, see Euripides.

Cretan Women, see Euripides.

Cretan Zeus, 310.

Creusa, in E. Ion, 236 ff., 303, 318, 322.

Critias, 29;

his Pirithous, 29;

Sisyphus, 29.

Croiset, Histoire de la Littér. Grecque [iii. 49], 9 n., 25 n. [iii. 400 n.], 111 n.

— his arrangement of E. Alc., 186 n.;

H. Fur., 228 n.;

Hippol., 205 n.;

I. Aul., 285 n.;

Or., 268 n.;

Phœn., 264 n.;

of S. Antig., 136 n.;

Œ. Col., 167 n.

Cyclops, see Euripides.

Cyllene, the nymph, in S. Ichneutæ, 176.

Cynegirus, bro. of Æ., 10.

Cypris, in E. Helena, 261.

Dædalus, 126.

Danae, see Euripides.

Danaidæ, 272.

Danaides, see Æschylus.

Danaids, 76.

Danaus, in Æ. Suppl., 84 ff.

— his daughters, 76.

Daphnis, see Sositheus.

Darius, 7;

in Æ. Persæ, 87-9;

Darius’s tomb, 64.

Das griech. Theater, see Dörpfeld.

Daughters of Danaus, see Phrynichus.

— — the Sun, see Æschylus.

Davenant, 9.

De Falsa Legatione, see Demosthenes.

De Gloria Atheniensium, see Plutarch.

Deianira, in S. Trachiniæ, 154 ff., 178-9, 180.

Dekker and Massinger, The Virgin Martyr, 137.

Demeter, in Carcinus, 35.

— — E. Helena, 259-60.

— — S. Triptolemus, 173.

De Metris, see Plotius.

Demophon, in E. Heracleidæ, 200 ff.

Demosthenes, 31, 82, 83 n., 182.

— De Falsa Legatione [§ 337], 83 n.

— In Meidiam, 82;

Olynthiacs [I, 5], 334 n.

De Profectu in Virtute, see Plutarch.

De Sublimitate, see “Longinus”.

Detectives, see Sophocles.

Dexion, 13.

Dicæopolis, in A. Acharn., 67, 296.

Dictys, see Euripides.

Didascaliæ, see Aristotle.

Didymus, the critic, 304 n.

Die Eurhythmie in den Chorgesängen der Griechen, see Schmidt.

Dindorf, 235 n.

Dinner-party, see Sophocles.

Dio Chrysostom, Oration, 52, 120 and n., 165-6 and n., 296-7.

“Diogenes Laertius,” 5, 25, 39 n. [ii. 133, vii. 173].

Diogenes, the philosopher, 37.

Diomedes, in E. Alcestis, 187;

Philoct., 166, 296;

Rhesus, 291 ff.

Dionysiades, 40.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 306.

— the Elder, 34;

his Hector’s Ransom, 34.

— — Younger, 35.

Dionysus, 1, 2 and n., 3 n., 4, 49.

— altar of, in theatre, 51.

— artists of, 75.

— Eleuthereus, 49.

— — priest of, 80.

— ivy sacred to, 61-2.

— Philiscus, priest of, at Alexandria, 40.

— ritual of, 81 n.

— theatre of, Athens, 49, 56.

— in Frogs, 80 n., 124, 298, 316.

— — Bacchæ, 73, 277 ff.

— — Hypsip., 304.

— — Antigone, 141.

— — Œ. Col., 170.

— — Lycurgea, 117.

Dioscuri, 257;

in Helena, 260;

E. Antiope, 298.

Doctor, see Grenfell, Hayley, Hunt, Mackail, Stockman, Verrall.

Doctor’s Dilemma, see Shaw.

Dogberry, 199.

Dolon, in Rhesus, 291 ff.

Don Carlos, see Schiller.

Doris, w. of Dionysius the elder, 34.

Dorothea, in Virgin Martyr, 137.

Dörpfeld, Das griechische Theater, 53 ff.

— in Bull. Corr. Hell. [1896, p. 577 sqq.], 59 n.

Dostoevsky, 319;

The Possessed, ch. i., p. 322.

Dramatic Productions, see Aristotle.

Ecclesiazusæ, see Aristophanes.

Echo, in E. Andromeda, 299.

— nymph, S. Philoct., 166.

Edoni, of Thrace, 117.

Edoni, see Æschylus.

Egyptians, see Æschylus.

— see Phrynichus.

Eido, in E. Helena, 263.

Einleitung, etc., see Wilamowitz-M.

Electra, in Æ. Choeph., 106 ff.

— — E. El., 252 ff.

— — — Orest., 73, 79, 268 ff., 319.

— — S. El., 141 ff., 177, 178, 181-2.

Electra, see Eurip. and Soph.

Eliot, George, Middlemarch, 334 n.

Empedocles, 127.

Ennius, 23, 333 n.

“Entertainer,” 13.

Eos, in Æ. W. of Souls, 120.

Epaphus, in Æ. Prom. V., 94.

Ephialtes, 116.

Epidemiai, see Ion.

Epodes, see Horace.

Eratosthenes, Catasterismoi [19], 301 n.

Eratosthenes, see Lysias.

Erechtheus, in E. Erech., 297.

Erechtheus, see Euripides and Swinburne.

Erinys, 110.

Eriphyle, 46.

Eros, in E. Andromeda, 300.

— — Plato’s Symposium, 28 n.

Eschyle, see Patin.

Essays on Two Moderns, see Salter.

Eteocles, 76;

in Æ. Septem, 89 ff., 129;

in E. Phœn., 264 ff.

Ethics, see Aristotle.

Eubulus, comedian, 34.

Euclid, the geometer, 40.

Eumelos, in E. Alcestis, 71, 186 n.

Eumenides, at Colonus, 172.

Eumenides, see Æschylus.

Euphorion, 10, 11, 18, 192, 296.

Euphronius, 40.

Euripidean Rhesus, etc., see Porter.

Euripides, vi, 13-15, 17-23, 26-7, 31-2, 67, 72, 83, 128, 177, 180, 182, 186 ff., 357;

and Agathon, 28;

and legends, 314-5;

and modern England, 324;

and Shaw, 320-1;

and Theodectes, 37;

as schoolbook, 21, 215;

blamed by Ar., 42;

copied by Sosiphanes, 41;

in later Gk. times, 21, 320;

inventor of prose-drama, 323;

relics of, 34;

text of, 41.

Euripides’ criticism of Æ., 20, 121, 126 and n.;

agnosticism, 318;

death, 277;

feeling for beauty, 320;

genius and personality, 310 ff.;

handling of traditional material, 46;

heroes in rags, 69;

library, 17;

metre, 334-5;

originality in portraiture, 319;

prologos, 47;

sophistry, 317;

technique, 19-21.

— and his Age, see Murray.

— der Dichter, etc., see Nestle.

— Apology, see Verrall.

— in a Hymn, see Verrall.

— restitutus, see Hartung.

— the Rationalist, see Verrall.

— Alcestis, 7, 17 n., 21, 55 n., 71, 76, 159 n., 186-92, and 294-5 [ll. 29, 32, 34, 37, 58, 158-84, 179, 280-325, 763-4, 904 sqq., 1159-63].

— Alcmæon at Corinth, 285-6.

— — — Psophis, 185, 295.

— Alexander, 243.

— Andromache, 21, 65, 77, 187 n., 219-28, 313 n., 318, 328, 330 [ll. 147-80, 164, 166, 229 sq., 241, 260, 445-63, 464-94, 588-9, 595-601, 632 sqq., 639, 708 sqq., 732 sqq., 752 sqq., 804, 929-53, 964, 1002 sqq., 1147 sqq., 1239 sqq.].

— Andromeda, 298-301, 303, 321.

— Antiope, 298.

— Bacchæ, 17, 68-70, 73, 77 and n., 187 n., 277-87, 304 n., 313 n., 321, 326, 356.

— [Bacchantes, see last]. [ll. 12, 64 sqq., 233-4, 625, 632-3, 677-774, 703, 732-51, 1325 sq.]

— Bellerophon, 284 n., 297 [Fragm., 294-7].

— [Children of Heracles, see Heracleidæ].

— Cresphontes, 307-9.

— Cretans, 310.

— Cretan Women, 295.

— Cyclops (sat.), 2, 191, 289-91, 362 [ll. 316-41, 361 sqq., 460-3, 549, 672-5.]

— Danae, 309.

— Dictys, 192, 296.

— Electra, 20, 55 n., 64, 65, 77, 142-3, 252-8, 313 n. [ll. 4 sqq., 9-10, 25 sqq., 54, 60-1, 77-8, 255 sqq., 362 sqq., 354-5, 367 sqq., 652-60, 737-45, 1041-3, 1142-6, 1245 sq., 1294, 1296-7, 1301-7, 1327 sqq., 1347-56].

— Erechtheus, 297-8.

— Fragmenta Adespota, 324 n. [nos. 894, 916].

— Harvesters (sat.), 192, 296.

— Hecuba, 21, 76, 215-9, 265, 268 [ll. 68 sqq., 174 sq., 230, 342-78, 421, 428-30, 462, 518-82, 531-3, 585 sqq., 592-603, 629 sqq., 671, 702 sqq., 779 sq., 796 sq., 799 sqq., 806-8, 814-9, 894-7, 905 sqq., 953-67, 1187-94, 1287 sq.].

— Helena, 55 n., 76, 160 n., 187 n., 258-64, 318 n., 322 [ll. 20-1, 138 sqq., 157, 183 sqq., 205 sqq., 256-9, 284-5, 355-6, 489 sqq., 491, 567, 616, 629, 744-60, 832, 878 sqq., 1013-6, 1048, 1050-2, 1107 sqq., 1140-3, 1301 sqq.].

— Heracleidæ, 76, 200-5, 288 [ll. 45-7, 240 sq., 513, 540, 563, 597 sqq., 625, 629 sq., 638, 665, 819-22, 847, 869 sqq., 910 sqq., 990, 997-9, 1020-5, 1035-7, 1049-52].

— Hercules Furens, 55 n., 65, 189, 203 n., 228-34, 317, 326 [ll. 65-6, 76, 70-9, 119, 140-235, 151-64, 153 sq., 339 sqq., 460-89, 485-9, 562-82, 585-94, 798 sqq., 857, 601 sqq., 673 sqq., 1002-6, 1222, 1255-1310, 1269 sqq., 1340-93, 1340-6].

— Hippolytus, 16, 21, 56, 71, 77, 205-15, 317-8, 320, 326 [ll. 29-33, 73-87, 121-5, 135-40, 151-4, 191-7, 208-31, 281, 328, 337 sqq., 384, 373-430, 415 sqq., 439-61, 474 sq., 493-6, 490 sq., 503-6, 507 sq., 512, 516, 565, 612, 616-68, 689-92, 728-31, 732-51, 828-9, 831-3, 960 sq., 967-70, 1034 sq., 1035, 1060-3, 1076 sq., 1082-3, 1375 sq., 1379-83, 1423-30].

— Hippolytus Veiled, 205 n.

— Hypsipyle, 304-5.

— Ino, 309.

— Ion, 21 and n., 55 n., 70, 76, 79, 191, 236-43, 251, 276, 298, 318, 322 [ll. 125-7, 265-8, 308, 313, 369 sqq., 436-51, 542, 548, 550 sqq., 585 sqq., 589 sqq., 727, 768 sqq., 859 sqq., 916, 952, 1029 sqq., 1039, 1211-6, 1215 sqq., 1312 sqq., 1324, 1397 sqq., 1419, 1424, 1468 sq., 1520-7, 1537 sq., 1546 sqq., 1550, 1565, 1595].

— Iphigenia among the Taurians, see Iph. in Tauris.

— — at Aulis, 64, 70, 77, 285-9, 304, 312, 313 n., 317, 322, 334 n. [ll. 320, 407, 414, 882, 919-74, 1366 sq.].

— — in Tauris, 31, 45, 73, 76, 247-52, 260, 321 [ll. 73, 77, 123-5, 275, 281 sqq., 380 sqq., 626, 677, 711 sqq., 719 sq., 739 sq., 823-6, 933, 939 sqq., 945, 961 sqq., 965 sq., 968 sqq., 976 sqq., 980, 985 sq., 1038-40, 1046, 1205, 1232, 1434].

— Medea, 18, 21 and n., 22 and n., 35, 46, 55, 77, 96, 187 n., 191, 192-9, 201, 208, 279, 296-7, 317, 321-33 [ll. 1, 230-51, 309 sq., 349, 364, 389 sqq., 450, 454, 472, 635, 801 sq., 824-45, 930 sq., 944 sq., 1021-80, 1081-1115, 1231-5, 1236-50, 1367, 1375-7, 1381-3].

— Melanippe, 305 n.;

M. in Prison, 305 n.

— — the Wise, 83, 305-7, 313 n.

— Orestes, 17 n., 21, 64, 70, 72, 73, 74, 77, 79, 215-6 n., 251, 265, 268-77, 288, 315, 318, 319 and n., 323, 334 [ll. 1-3, 28 sqq., 37 sqq., 72-92, 71-111, 78 sq., 101-11, 121, 126 sqq., 174 sqq., 285 sqq., 310, 360 sqq., 362, 365, 367, 371 sqq., 373, 380 sqq., 386, 388, 390, 395-8, 417, 420, 423, 481 sqq., 491-525, 502, 544 sqq., 550, 551, 568, 615 sqq., 634, 640 sq., 658-61, 674, 740, 743, 745, 747, 749, 756, 797, 872, 892, 894, 932 sqq., 960 sqq., 982 sqq., 983, 1204 sqq., 1323, 1493 sqq., 1535-9, 1547 sqq., 1576, 1662-3, 1666 sqq.].

— Palamedes, 243.

— Peliades, 17.

— Phaethon, 56, 300, 321.

— Philoctetes, 192, 296-7.

— Phœnician Women or Phœnissæ, 21, 64, 77, 91, 215-6 n., 264-8 [ll. 88-201, 114 sqq., 302 sq., 316, 528 sqq., 590 sq., 609, 612, 751 sq., 1090-1099, 1104-40, 1182 sq., 1223-82, 1233 sq., 1259 sqq., 1265-6, 1524 sq., 1758 sq.].

— Polyidus, 309.

— Rhesus, 21, 23 n., 76, 186 n., 191, 291-5, 313 n., 321 [ll. 319-23, 422-53, 474-84, 528, 546-56, 618, 962-73, 971].

— Sisyphus (satyric play), 243.

— Suppliant Women or Supplices, 20, 65, 77 and n., 160 n., 234-6 [ll. 195-218, 297-331, 403-56, 518-44, 567, 846-54, 1054-6].

— Telephus, 185, 295-6.

— The Crowned Hippolytus, 205 n., 214;

The Veiled H., 214.

— Troades, or Trojan Women, 21, 76, 243-6, 248, 262, 308, 318 and n., 321 [ll. 67 sq., 220 sqq., 469 sqq., 703 sqq., 710, 738, 764, 841 sqq., 884 sqq., 1060 sqq., 1158 sqq., 1204 sqq., 1240 sqq.].

— Women of Crete, 186.

— son of E., 285-6.

Europa, 175 n.

Eurydice, in S. Antigone, 137 ff.

— — E. Hypsipyle, 304.

Eurypylus in S. Eurypylus, 176 and n.

Eurypylus, see Sophocles.

Eurysaces, in S. Ajax, 71.

Eurystheus, in E. Heracleidæ, 200 ff.

Eurytus, in S. Trach., 154 ff.

Evadne, 65;

in E. Suppl., 234 ff.

Fall of Troy, see Agathon.

Faust, in Marlowe, 185.

Flaubert, La Tentation de S. Antoine, 326.

Fletcher, 317.

Flower, see Agathon.

Fortinbras, in Hamlet, 152 n.

Founding of Chios, see Ion.

Four Plays of Euripides, see Verrall.

Fragmenta Comic. Græc., see Meineke.

France, Anatole, see A. F.

Frederick the Great, 34.

Frenzy, in E. Herc. Fur., 229 ff.

Gabler, Hedda, see H. G.

Galatea, statue of, 126.

Galsworthy, Justice, 37.

Garrick and Macbeth, 70.

Gellius, Aulus, see A. G.

Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur, see Christ.

Gilbert Murray, see Murray.

Giotto, 33.

Glauce, in E. Medea, 192 ff.

Glaucus, 8 n.;

in E. Or., 275 and n.

Glaucus, etc., see Æschylus.

Goethe, Altgriechische Literatur (Wks., V. 127, ed. 1837), 301 n., and 302 and n.

Gorgias, 28, 218.

Grant Allen, 20 n.

Great Play, see Ion.

Gregers Werle, 317.

Gregory of Nazianzus, 41.

Grenfell, Dr., 18.

Greuze, 34.

Griechische Litteraturgeschichte, see Müller-Heitz.

Growth and Influence of Classical Greek Poetry, see Jebb.

Grundriss der griechischen Litteratur, see Bernhardy.

Hadley, introdn. to Hecuba [pp. ix.-xii.], 217 n.

Hadrian, 41.

Hæmon, in E. Phœn., 264;

in S. Antigone, 137 ff.

Haggard, Sir H. Rider, 248.

Hagnon, 295.

Haigh, Attic Tragedy, 16, 53 ff., 55 nn., 59 n., 65 and n., 73 n., 75 n., 80, 81 n.

— Tragic Drama of the Greeks, 1 n., 6 n., 15, 25 n., 124 and n.

Hamlet, 72, 136, 217.

Hamlet, see Shakespeare.

Hankin, St. John, 28.

Harpalus, 39.

Hartung, Euripides Restitutus, 299 n., 301 n., 305 n., 307.

Harvesters, see E.

Hayley, Dr., on E. Alcestis, 187 n., 191 n.

Hebe, in E. Heracleidæ, 201-2.

Hebrews [xii. 1], 349.

Hector, in Æ. Myrmidons, and Phrygians, 118;

Philoct., 120;

in E. Rhesus, 291 ff.

Hector, see Astydamas.

Hector’s Ransom, see Dionysius the Elder and Æschylus.

Hecuba, in E. Hec., 215 ff.;

in Troades, 243, 262, 308, 318.

Hecuba, see Euripides.

Hedda Gabler, 317.

Hegel, 320.

Hegelochus, the actor, 74.

Heitz-Müller, Griechische Litteraturgeschichte [ii. 88], 92 n.

Helen, 254;

in Æ. Agam., 99;

in E. Androma., 224;

Helena, 258 n., 259 ff., 322;

Or., 268 ff., 318, 323;

in Troad., 243 n., 244.

Helena, see E.

Helenus, in E. Androma., 221.

Heliodorus, novelist; Æthiopica, 299.

Helios, in E. Phaethon, 301 ff.

Hellenica, see Xenophon.

Helmer, Thorvald, in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, 189.

Henry VI, see Shakespeare.

Hephæstus, in Æ. Nereids, 118.

— — — Prom. V., 92 ff.

Hera, 94, 231-2;

in E. Hel., 259;

Heracleid., 201, 203 n.

— Ludovisi, 182.

Heracleidæ, in E. Hel., 200 ff.

Heracleidæ, see Euripides.

Heracles, in Phrynichus’ Antæus, 69, 88, 96 and 98;

in E. Alc., 186 ff.;

in Heracleid., 200 ff.;

in H. Fur., 228 ff.;

in S. Philoct., 120, 161 ff.;

Trachin., 154 ff., 180.

— — Pirithous, 29.

Hercules Furens, see Euripides.

Hermann on Rhesus, 294 n.

Hermathena [xvii. 348-80], 295.

Hermes, 67;

in Æ. Eum., 111 ff.;

in Prom. V., 95, 124;

in Homer, 119;

in E. Ion, 236 ff.;

in S. Ichneutæ, 175.

— Hymn to, see Hymn.

Hermione, 79;

in E. Andromache, 219 ff., 225 ff., 318;

in Orestes, 268 ff.

Herodotus, 3 and n., 7 n., 15, 89 [v. 67, vi. 21].

Hesychius, 281 n.

Hiawatha, see Longfellow.

Hiero of Syracuse, 10, 119.

Hippe, in E. Melanippe, 305 f.

Hippolytus, in E. Hippol., 46, 205 ff., 279-80, 284 n., 318.

Hippolytus, see Euripides; so H. Crowned, and H. Veiled.

Histoire de la Littérature Grecque, see Croiset.

History of Gk. Literature, see Mahaffy.

Homer, 21, 118, 123, 320;

Iliad, 120, 288, 291;

Odyssey [iv. 351-86], 98 and n.; [ix. 105-566], 290 nn.

— the tragedian, 39.

Homeric Hymn to Hermes, 175.

Horace, 21, 56;

Ars Poetica, 5 n., 56 and n.;

Epodes, 345 n. [A.P. 275-8].

Horace Walpole, 311.

“Host,” 13.

Hunt, Dr. A. S., 18, 175 n., 176 n.;

and see Oxyrhynchus and Papyri.

Hyllus, in E. Heracleid., 200 ff.;

in S. Trachiniæ, 154 ff., 178.

Hymn to Hermes, 175.

Hypermnestra, 85;

in Æ. Danaides, 128.

Hypsipyle, in E. Hypsip., 304.

Hypsipyle, see Euripides.

Ibsen, p. v, 28, 211, 317;

A Doll’s House, 189, 224.

Ichneutæ, see Sophocles.

Iliad, see Homer.

Ino, see E.

Io, in Æ. Prom. V., 94 ff., 105.

Iolaus, in E. Heracleidæ, 200 ff.

Iole, in S. Trachiniæ, 154 ff., 179.

Ion of Chios, 21, 23-4;

Memoirs or Epidemiai, 13 n., 15;

Founding of Chios, 23;

Great Play, 24 and n.

— in E. Ion, 236 ff., 279, 303.

Ion, see Euripides.

Iophon, s. of Sophocles, 13, 60.

Iphigenia, 42, 263, 270, 318, 321;

in Æ. Agam., 99 ff.;

in E. Iph. A., 285 ff., 322;

Iph. T., 73, 247 ff.;

in Polyidus Iphig., 32.

Iphigenia, see Polyidus.

— at Aulis, see Euripides.

— in Tauris, see Euripides.

Iphis, in E. Suppl., 234 ff.

Iris, apparition of, in E. H. Fur., 65, 229 ff.

Isaiah [liii. 1], 349.

Ismene, 178;

in Æ. Septem, 90;

in S. Antig., 137 ff.;

Œ. Col., 168 ff.

Isocrates, 36.

Israel, 172;

prophets of, and Æ., 121.

Jason, in E. Medea, 192 ff., 321.

— — — Hypsip., 304-5.

— — Neophron’s Medea, 22.

Jebb, Professor Sir Richard, p. v, 160 n.;

on S. Ajax, 132 n., 136 n.;

Antigone, 136 n., 139, 141, 351;

Electra, 141 n., 143 and n.;

Œ. Col., 71, 167, 170 and n., 171, 172 n., 173 n., 182 n.;

Philoct., 165 n., 166 and n., 167 n.;

Trach., 156 and n.;

Growth and Influence of Classical Greek Poetry, 318 n.

Jocasta, 16, 46;

in E. Phœn., 264 ff.;

in S. Œ. Tyr., 146 ff.

John Bright, 348.

Jones, W. H. S., The Moral Standpoint of Euripides, 28 sq.

Joseph, 172.

Juliet’s nurse, 124.

Julius Cæsar, in Sh., 134.

Jupiter Tragœdus, see Lucian.

Justice, see Galsworthy.

Justice Shallow, 199.

Keats, 33.

Kindly Ones, The, 111-7.

King Lear, see Shakespeare.

Kipling, 319.

Kirk White, 118 and n.

Knights, see Aristophanes.

Kyd, 121;

Spanish Tragedy, 268.

Lady Macbeth and Clytæmnestra, 104.

Laertes, 297.

Laertius, Diogenes, see D. L.

Laius, in S. Œ. Tyr., 145 ff.

Laius, see Æschylus.

Lampros, 12.

Laocoon, see Sophocles.

La Tentation de St. Antoine, see Flaubert.

Laws, see Plato.

Lear, King, 79, 136-7.

Lear, King, see Shakespeare.

Lectures on Greek Poetry, see Mackail.

Leda, 260, 263.

Le jeu de l’amour, etc., see Marivaux.

Le problème des Bacchantes, etc., see Nihard.

Libation-Bearers, see Choephorœ, under Æ.

Liber Amatorius, see Plutarch.

Libyans, see Phrynichus.

Lichas, in S. Trachiniæ, 154 ff.

Life of Aristides, see Plutarch.

Literature of Ancient Greece, see Murray.

Lityerses, see Sositheus.

Locksley Hall, see Tennyson.

Longfellow, 337;

Hiawatha, 353.

“Longinus,” de Sublimitate [xv. 7. etc.], 174 and n., 251 n.

Love in the Valley, see Meredith.

Lovers of Achilles, see Sophocles.

Loxias, in E. Orestes, 270.

Lucian, Adversus indoctos [15], 34;

Jupiter Tragœdus [41], 306 n.;

Quomodo historia conscribenda [1], 298 and n.

Lucretius, 319.

Lycophron, 39, 40;

Alexandra, 40;

Menedemus, 39-40.

Lycurgea, trilogy, 117, and see Æ.

Lycurgus, k. of Edoni, 117.

— orator, 31, 81.

— theatre of, 57.

Lycurgus (satyric), 117 and see Æ.

Lycus, in E. Antiope, 298;

H. Fur., 203 and n., 228 ff., 317.

Lynceus, 85.

Lynceus, see Theodectes.

Lysias, Eratosthenes [ii.], 30 and n.

Mab, Queen, in Sh., R. and Juliet, 79.

Macaria, in E. Heracleidæ, 200 ff., 288, 317.

Macbeth, see Shakespeare.

Macbeth, 273;

Lady, 104.

Macduffs, 73.

Mackail, Lectures on Greek Poetry, 171 n., 184 n.

Macrobius [V., xviii. 12], 304 n.

Mad Heracles, 228-34.

Mahaffy, History of Greek Literature, Poets, 163 n.

Manning, F., Scenes and Portraits, 311 and n.

Marivaux, Le jeu de l’amour et du hasard [II., ii.], 28 and n.

Mark Antony, 134.

Marlowe, 121, 183, 185, 317, 328.

Massinger and Dekker, The Virgin Martyr, 137.

Matthaei, Miss L. E., Studies in Greek Tragedy, 216 n.

Matthew Arnold, see A. M.

Mausolus, k. of Caria, 38.

Mausolus, see Theodectes.

Measure for Measure, see Shakespeare.

Medea, in E. Medea, 8, 72, 159 n., 190, 192 ff., 218, 279, 313.

— apparition of, 65;

chariot of, 312-3;

sons of, 71.

— in Neophron’s Medea, 22.

Medea, see Carcinus, Euripides, and Neophron.

Megara, in Herc. Fur., 228 ff.

Meidias, Demosthenes’ speech against, 82.

Meineke, Fragmenta Comicorum Græcorum [ii. 1142], 19, 38 n.

Melanippe, in E. Melan., 305 ff., 312.

Melanippe, etc., see Euripides.

Melanippus, 3 n.

Meleager, in Phrynichus Pleuroniæ, 7.

Memnon, in Æ., Weighing of Souls, 120.

Memoirs, see Ion.

Menander, 29, 83, 289, 311.

Menedemus the philosopher, 25.

Menedemus, see Lycophron.

Menelaus, 254;

in Æ. Agam., 99;

in E. Andromache, 219 ff., 225 ff.;

Helena, 258 n., 259 ff., 322;

I. Aul., 285 ff.;

Orestes, 268 ff., 312, 323;

Telephus, 295-6;

Troades, 243 n. and 244;

in S. Ajax, 132 ff.

Menœceus, in E. Phœnissæ, 264 ff.

Men of Eleusis, Men of Persia, see Æ.; Men of Pheræ, see Moschion.

Menon, archonship of, 87.

Merchant of Venice, see Shakespeare.

Mercutio, 79.

Meredith, George, 287, 322;

Love in the Valley, 33.

Merope, in E. Cresphontes, 307 f.;

in S. Œ. Tyr., 147.

Merope, see Arnold.

Merops, in E. Phaethon, 301 ff.

Michelangelo, 102.

Middlemarch, see Eliot, George.

Middleton, Witch, 9.

Midsummer Night’s Dream, see Shakespeare.

Miletus, Capture of, see Phrynichus.

Milton and Æ., 97, 122;

and S. Œ. Col., 171;

Paradise Lost, 95.

Mimnermus, 39 and n., 119.

Minos, [321 A], 5 n.

Mnesarchus, father of E., 17.

Mnesilochus, in A. Thesmoph., 296.

Molière, 39 n.

Molottus, in E. Androma., 219 ff., 225 ff.

Moralia, see Plutarch.

Moral Standpoint of Euripides, The, see Jones.

Mornings in Florence, see Ruskin.

Moschion, 37, 38, 41, 315;

Men of Pheræ, 38;

Telephus, 38 n.;

Themistocles, 38.

Moses, 172.

Müller, K. O., On Lit., 163 n.

Müller-Heitz, Griechische Litteraturgeschichte [ii. 88], 92 n.

Murray, Professor Gilbert, p. v;

Euripides and his Age, 276 n., 279 n., 280 n., 282 n., 283 n.;

Literature of Ancient Greece, 126 and n.;

on Cyclops, 289 n., 362 n.;

Helen, 263 n.;

Heracl., 201 n.;

Hippol., 210-11, 214;

Iph. A., 286 n.;

I. Taur., 247 n., 251 n.;

Medea, 198 n.;

Orestes, 268 n.;

Rhesus, 294 n.;

tr. of S. Œ. Col., 185.

Mustering of the Greeks (satyric), see Sophocles.

Myrmidons, see Æ.

Myrtilus, 274.

Nauck, 301 n., 306 n.

Nausicaa, see Sophocles.

Nazianzus, Gregory of, 41.

Neophron, 21-2, 195-6;

Medea, 21.

Neoptolemus, in E. Andromache, 219 ff., 225 ff.

— — — Troades, 243.

— — S. Eurypylus, 176 and n.

— — — Philoctetes, 120, 161 ff., 296, 334 n.

Nereides, see Æ.

Nereus, 275;

daughters of, 118.

Nessus, in S. Trachin., 154 ff.

Nestle, Dr. W., Euripides der Dichter der griech. Aufklärung, 318 n., 324 n., 325.

Nestor, 14.

Nicias, 13, 60, 163.

Nicias, see Plutarch.

Nicomachean Ethics, see Aristotle.

Nihard, Dr. R., Le Problème des Bacchantes d’Euripide, 281 n.

Niobe, in Æ., 20.

Niobe, see Æ.

“Noman,” in E. Cyclops, 289-90.

Norwood, Professor Gilbert, Riddle of the Bacchæ, 191 n., 279 n., 281 n.

Note sur le Prométhée d’Eschyle, see Weil.

Oceanus, in Æ. Prom. V., 65, 94.

— — E. Phaethon, 303 and n.

Odysseus, 319;

in Æ. Philoct., 120;

in E. Cycl., 2, 289 ff.;

Hecuba, 216;

Philoct., 296;

Rhesus, 291 ff.;

Telephus, 295-6;

Troades, 243;

in S. Ajax, 132 ff.;

Philoct., 161 ff., 178, 179, 334 n.

Odyssey, see Homer.

Œdipus, 46, 72, 136;

in E. Phœn., 264 ff.;

in S. Œ. Col., 168 ff., 177, 185, 217;

Œ. Tyr., 145 ff., 177-8;

sons of, 89.

Œdipus, see Æschylus, Carcinus, and Sophocles.

— Coloneus, see Sophocles.

— Rex, see Sophocles.

— Tyrannus, see Sophocles.

Œneus, see Chæremon.

Œnomaus, 70.

Olympian Odes, see Pindar.

Olynthiacs, see Demosthenes.

On the Sublime, see “Longinus”.

Opheltes, in E. Hypsipyle, 304.

Oration, see Dio Chrysostom.

Orator, see Cicero.

Oresteia, see Æschylus.

Orestes, 46, 63-4, 67, 76, 129-30, 313;

delirium of, 70;

nurse of, 124;

in Æ. Agam., 100;

Choeph., 73 n., 104, 107 ff., 126;

Eum., 111 ff., 128, 130 n.;

E. Androma., 220 ff., 226;

Electra, 252 ff.;

Iph. I., 73, 247 ff.;

Or., 268 ff., 323;

Telephus, 296;

in Polyidus Iph., 31;

in S. Electra, 141 ff.

Orgon, M., in Marivaux, 28 n.

Origin of Tragedy, see Ridgeway.

Orithyia, in S. Orith., 175.

Orithyia, see Sophocles.

Orpheus, in Æ. Bassarides, 117.

Ortheris, Private, 319.

Orthomenes, F. of Ion of Chios, 23.

Othello, 136.

Outis, in E. Cyclops, 289-90.

Ovid, 257.

Palamedes, see Euripides.

Paley, on E. Orestes, 276.

Pallas, in E. H. Fur., 233 n.

Panza, Sancho, 255.

Paradise Lost, see Milton.

Paris, in E. Helena, 259;

Iph. A., 285;

Rhesus, 291 n. ff.

Parthenopæus, see Astydamas.

Patin, Eschyle, 88 and n.

Patroclus, in Æ. Myrmidons, and Nereids, 118.

Patterne, Sir Willoughby, 287.

Peace, see Aristophanes.

Peel, Sir Robert, 325.

Pegasus, in E. Bellerophon, 297.

Peleus in E. Andromache, 220 ff., 225 ff.;

Iph. A., 286.

Peliades, see Euripides.

Pentheus, see Euripides Bacchæ, 70, 73, 277 ff.

Pentheus, see Thespis.

Pericles, 13, 116, 177, 270, 313.

Pericles, see Plutarch.

Persæ, see Æ.

Persephone, in Carcinus, 35;

in E. Helena, 260;

Heracleidæ, 200;

in Pirithous, 29.

Perseus, in E. Andromeda, 298 ff.

Persian counsellors, 7.

Peruigilium Veneris, 333 n.

Phædra, 190, 205 ff., 218, 279, 317-8.

Phædrus, 52.

Phaethon, in Æ. D. of Sun, 119.

— — E. Phaethon, 300 ff.

— sisters of, in E. Hippol., 208.

Phaethon, see Euripides.

Pherecrates Cheiron, 72 and n. [Fragm. i.].

Pheres, in E. Alcestis, 186 ff.

Phidias, 14.

Philemon, 83.

Philip of Macedon, 82, 163.

Philiscus, 39, 40.

Philoctetes, 62, 73;

in Æ. Phil., 120;

in S. Phil., 161 ff., 177-8, 181;

in Theodectes, 37.

Philoctetes, see Achæus, Æ., E., S., and Theodectes.

Philomela, in S. Tereus, 174.

Phineus, in E. Andromeda, 299 ff.

Phineus, see Æ.

Phœbus, in E. Electra, 257-8;

Ion, 242;

Iph. I., 250.

Phœnician Women, see Euripides, and Phrynichus.

Phœnissæ, see Euripides, and Phrynichus.

Phorbas, see Thespis.

Phrygians, see Æ.

Phrynichus, comic poet, 14.

— general, 7 n.

— tragedian, 2, 6-10, 12, 15, 22, 78, 86, 90, 141, 315;

in Frogs, 126;

Alcestis, 6-7;

Antæus, 6-7;

Capture of Miletus, 6-7, 38;

Danaides or Daughters of Danaus, 6-7;

Egyptians, 6-7;

Libyans, 6-7;

Phœnician Women or Phœnissæ, 6-10, 38;

Pleuroniæ or Pleuronian Women, 6-7;

Tantalus, 6;

Troilus, 7.

Pickard-Cambridge, 53 n.

Pindar, 9, 24;

his tropes, 123;

Olympian Odes [xiii. 18 sq.], 3 and n.

Pirithous, in Pirithous, 29.

Pirithous, 18, 29;

and see Critias.

Pisistratus, 50.

Plato, comic playwright, 78-9.

Plato, philosopher, 21, 34, 36, 128, 182-3;

Laws [659 A-C, 700 C, 701 A], 60 n.;

Protagoras [315 E], 28 n.;

Republic [391 E], 119 and n.;

Symposium, 27, 29, 50 n., 55 and n. [175 E, 194 B, 197 D, 198 C, 223 D];

[? Minos, 321 A], 5 n.

Plautus, Pœnulus, 23.

Pleuroniæ or Pleuronian Women, see Phrynichus.

Plotius, De Metris [p. 2633], 6 n.

Plutarch, 323;

Cimon [viii.], 12;

De Gloria Atheniensium [349 E], 31;

De Profectu in Virtute [79 B, E], 15, 23 n.;

Liber Amatorius [756 B, C], 83 n.;

Life of Aristides [III.], 91 and n.;

Moralia, [998 E, 110 D], 308 and n.;

Nicias [524 D], 60 n.;

Pericles [V], 24 and n.;

Symposiaca [615 A, 645 E], 2 n., 26 and n.

Pluto, in Pirithous, 29.

Pœnulus, see Plautus.

Poetic, see Aristotle.

Pollux [iv. 126, 128], 63 n., 64, 66 and n., 67 n., 70.

Pollux, in E. Electra, 253;

Helena, 258 n., 259 ff.

Polonius, 297.

Polybus, in S. Œ. Tyr., 147 ff.

Polydeuces, see Pollux; 252 n., etc.

Polydorus, ghost of, in E. Hec., 215 ff.

Polygnotus, 14.

Polyidus, 31-2;

Iphigenia, 31.

Polyidus, see Euripides.

Polymestor, in E. Hec., 215 ff.

Polynices, 235;

in Æ. Septem, 89 ff.;

in E. Phœn., 264 ff.;

in S. Antig., 137 ff.;

Œ. Col., 168 ff.

Polyphemus, in E. Cyclops, 289 ff.

Polyphontes, in E. Cresphontes, 307 f.

Polyphradmon, 6, 90.

Polyphron, 38.

Polyxena, in E. Hec., 216 ff.;

Troad., 243 ff.

Polyxena, see Sophocles.

Porter, W. H., The Euripidean Rhesus in the light of recent criticism, 295 n.

Poseidon, 85;

in E. Hippol., 206;

Ion, 242;

Troad., 243 ff.;

Melanippe, 305 f.

Possessed, The, see Dostoevsky.

Powell, J. U., ed. of E. Phœnissæ, 256 and n., 265 n.

Pratinas, 2, 6, 71 n., 90.

Praxiteles, 126.

Praxithea, in E. Erechtheus, 297.

Priam, in Æ. Agam., 99;

Phrygians, 118;

in E. Hec., 215;

in S. Eurypylus, 176.

Priests, The, see Thespis.

Private Ortheris, 319.

Procne, in S. Tereus, 174.

Prodicus, 28.

Professor, see Jebb, Murray, Norwood, Ridgeway, Roberts, Tucker, Wilamowitz-Moellendorff.

Prometheus, 62, 72, 76, 88;

in Æ., 121;

in Prom. V., 92 ff.

— trilogy, 114.

Prometheus (sat.), see Æ.

— Bound, see Æ.

— The Fire-Bringer, see Æ.

— Unbound, see Æ. and Shelley.

Protagoras, 17.

Protagoras, see Plato.

Proteus, tomb of, in E. Helena, 259.

Proteus, see Æ.

Ptolemy II., 39-40.

Puchstein, 81 n.

Pylades, 64;

in Æ. Choeph., 73 n., 108-9;

in E. El., 252 ff.;

Iph. T., 73, 247 ff.;

Orest., 268 ff.;

in S. El., 141 ff.

Python of Catana or Byzantium, 39.

Queen Mab, in Sh., Romeo and J., 79.

Quomodo Historia Conscribenda, see Lucian.

Raffaelle, 33, 102.

Ransom of Hector, see Æ. and Dionysius.

Relapse, The, see Vanbrugh.

Renan, 311.

Republic, see Plato.

Rhesus in Rhesus, 291 ff.

Rhesus, see Euripides.

Rhetoric, see Aristotle.

Rhys Roberts, Professor W., his tr. of De Sublimitate, 24 n.

Richard III, see Shakespeare.

Riddle of the Bacchæ, see Norwood.

Ridgeway, Professor Sir Wm., The Origin of Tragedy, 2-3, 64 n.

Roberts, Rhys, see Rhys R.

Robespierre, 30.

Rupert Brooke, 358.

Ruskin, Mornings in Florence [I. 14], 299 and n.

Russell, Lord John, 325.

S. Paul [1 Cor. xv. 33], 309.

St. John Hankin, 28.

Salter, W. H., Essays on Two Moderns, 281 n.

Samuel, 172, 237.

Sancho Panza, 255.

Sappho, 8.

Saranoff, Sergius, 288.

Satyrus, Life of Euripides, 18, 29 n.

Scaliger, on Rhesus, 294.

Scenes and Portraits, see Manning.

Scephrus, 3 n.

Schiller, Don Carlos [III. 10], 324 n.

Schmidt, Dr. J. H. H., 334 n., 346 n.

(Die Eurhythmie in den Chorgesängen der Griechen, [p. 89, etc.]), 353 n.

(Introduction, etc.), 358 n., 345, 362 n., 354.

Scholar-Gipsy, see Arnold.

Sedley, 360.

Semele, in E. Bacchæ, 277 ff.;

Hippol., 212.

Seneca, 44, 272.

Septem, see Æ.

Sergius Saranoff, 288.

Seven against Thebes, see Æ.

Shakespeare, 9, 14, 29 n., 79, 104, 183, 219, 282, 325;

and Shaw, 121;

As You, 63;

Hamlet, 152 n., 183;

Henry V [iv. 8], 88 and n.;

II Henry VI [iii. 1], 66;

John, 234;

Jul. C., 134;

Lear, 16, 171-2, 183 [iij. 4];

Macbeth, 9, 16, 42, 70, 317;

M. for M., 41;

Mcht. V., 72-4 n.;

M. N. Dr. [ii. 1], 355;

Much Ado, 199;

Rd. III, 282;

R. and J., 79, 124;

Sonnets, 174;

Tp., [v. 1], 354;

Titus A. [ii. 1. 5-7], 121 and n.

— Justice Shallow, 199.

Shaw, Bernard, 39 n.;

Doctor’s Dilemma, 236 n., 320-1 (and E.).

— Sergius Saranoff in, 288;

and Sh., 121.

Shelley, Prom. Unbd., 95.

Silenus, 69;

in E. Cyclops, 289 ff.;

in S. Ichneutæ, 175.

Simonides, 9-10.

Sir H. Rider Haggard, 248.

Sir Willoughby Patterne, in Meredith’s Egoist, 287.

Sisyphus, in Agathon, 27.

Sisyphus, of Critias, 29-30;

and see Euripides.

Socrates, 17, 28 and n., 29 n., 50 n., 65, 67, 163 n., 318.

Sonnets, see Shakespeare.

Sophillus, f. of Sophocles.

Sophocles, v, vi, 4, 10, 12 ff., 17-20, 22-4, 26, 31, 37, 59, 60, 74, 77, 91-2, 95, 122, 132 ff., 186, 192, 195-6, 208-9, 223-4, 226 n., 275, 276 n., 281, 293, 295-6, 312, 333.

— as actor and citharist, or harpist, 71, 173-4.

— Attic spirit of, 182;

criticism of other dramatists, 160 n.

— dramatic irony in, 179-80.

— influenced by E., in Trach., 159-60.

— influence on Æ., 126;

introduced crēpis, 68;

invented scene-painting, 52;

Jebb’s ed. of, v;

metre of, 180, 331 n., 334.

— mind and art of, 177 ff.;

plots, 179;

religion, 177;

technical innovations, 15.

— Ajax, 42 n., 55 n., 63, 71, 119, 132-6, 138, 155, 158-9, 184 [ll. 520-1, 559, 646, 650-3, 815 sqq.].

— Amphiaraus (satyric play), 174.

— Antigone, 8 n., 15, 132, 136-41, 184, 266, 349 [ll. 95, 175-90, 450-70, 582 sqq., 782, 904-12, 1195, 1329-30].

— Detectives (satyric), 175-6.

— Dinner-Party (satyric), 174.

— Electra, 63, 141-5, 152, 160 n., 171 n., 253 [ll. 147-9, 303-16, 328 sqq., 415, 582 sqq., 616-21, 957, 974, 1080, 1165 sq., 1288 sqq., 1331-3, 1424-5, 1508 sqq.].

— Eurypylus, 176.

— Ichneutæ, 2, 175-6.

— Laocoon, 174.

— Lovers of Achilles, 174.

— Mustering of the Greeks (satyric), 174.

— Nausicaa, 12, 174.

— Œdipus, 24.

— Œdipus at Colonus, Œdipus Coloneus, 13, 14 and n., 16, 71 n., 160 n., 167-73, 174, 185, 267 [ll. 62 sq., 106, 258-91, 443, 472, 506, 569, 607 sqq., 620, 670-80, 854-5, 960-1013, 964-5, 1047 sq., 1055, 1082, 1116, 1127, 1148-9, 1152, 1225-8, 1422-5, 1503 sq., 1563 sq., 1582 sqq., 1615 sqq., 1627 sq., 1682, 1697].

— Œdipus Rex, the King, or Tyrannus, 13 n., 16, 35, 37, 79, 96, 145-54, 157, 169, 173, 179, 183, 266, 268 n., 331 n.

(Aristotle’s remarks on Œ. Tyr., 46-8, 148) [ll. 1, 29, 124-5, 130-1, 151, 436, 483 sq., 587-8, 738, 758-64, 774 sqq., 942, 959, 1026, 1028, 1038, 1117-8, 1141, 1313, 1524-5].

— Orithyia, 175.

— Philoctetes, 16, 46, 76, 120, 145, 161-7, 179;

Deus ex. m. in, 315;

metre of, 181, 334 n., 337 [ll. 187-90, 268, 282-4, 287-92, 385 sqq., 456 sqq., 670, 926 sqq., 981 sq., 1007-15, 1035 sqq., 1047-51, 1095 sqq., 1222 sqq., 1299 sqq., 1402, 1455].

— Polyxena, 174.

— Tereus, 174.

— Thamyras, 71.

— Trachiniæ, 154-60, 164, 195 [ll. 9-14, 248-86, 268, 416, 427, 547-9, 575-7, 719 sq., 900-22, 927 sq., 1140].

— Triptolemus, 173.

— Women Washing, 174.

— Fragmenta Adespota [344, 345], 173-5.

Sosiphanes, 40-41.

Sositheus, 39-40;

Daphnis (satyric), 40;

Lityerses (satyric), 40.

Spanish Tragedy, see Kyd.

Sphinx, see Æ.

Stesichorus, 262 n.

Stevenson, R. L., 320.

Sthenebœa, in E., 318.

Stobæus, 37 [102-3], 39 n., 323.

Stockman, Dr., in Ibsen, 317.

Strabo [I. 33], 301 and n.

Studies in Greek Tragedy, see Matthaei.

— — the Greek Poets, see Symonds.

Suidas, 5, 15 n., 21 n., 22, 23, 25 n.

Suppliant Women, or Supplices, see Æ. and E.

Swift, 248.

Swinburne, 174;

Erechtheus, 297.

Symonds, J. A., Studies in the Greek Poets [II. 26], 33 n.

Symposiaca, see Plutarch.

Symposium, see Plato.

Talking Oak, see Tennyson.

Talthybius, in E. Hec., 216;

Troad., 243 ff.

Tannhäuser, 283.

Tantalus, see Phrynichus.

Tchekov, Cherry Orchard, 319.

Tauric Iphigenia, see Euripides, 73.

Tecmessa, in S. Ajax, 132 ff., 159.

Telephus, in E. Tel., 295-6.

Telephus, see Euripides, and Moschion.

Tempest, see Shakespeare.

Teniers, 124.

Tennyson, Talking Oak, 355;

Locksley Hall, 335, 339.

Terence, 28, 36.

Tereus, in S. Ter., 174.

Tereus, see Sophocles.

Tess of the D’Urbervilles, see Thomas Hardy.

Teucer, in E. Helena, 258 n., 259 ff.;

in S. Ajax, 132 ff., 158.

Thamyras, see Sophocles.

Thanatos, in E. Alcestis, 187 ff.

Themistocles, 7, 88-9, 128 n.

Themistocles, see Moschion.

Theoclymenus, in E. Helena, 258 ff., 314 n.

Theocritus, 40.

Theodectes of Phaselis, 36-8;

Lynceus, 37;

Mausolus, 38.

Theodorus the actor, 35.

Theonoe, in E. Helena, 258 n., 259 ff.

Theseus, in E. Herc. Fur., 228 ff.;

Hippol., 205 ff.;

Suppl., 234 ff.;

in S. Œ. Col., 168 ff., 178, 185;

in Pirithous, 29.

Thesmophoriazusæ, see Aristophanes.

Thespis, 2, 4-5 (his waggon, 50), 56, 58, 68;

his supposed fragments, 5;

Pentheus, Phorbas, Priests, Trials of Pelias, Youths, 5.

The Theory of Beauty, see Carritt.

Thetis, 65;

in Æ. Nereids, 118;

W. of Souls, 120;

in E. Andromache, 220 ff.;

Iph. A., 286.

Thoas, in E. Hypsip., 304;

Iph. T., 247 ff.

Thomas Hardy and E., 325;

Tess of the D’U., 325-6.

Thorvald Helmer, in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, 189.

Thracian Women, see Æ.

Thucydides, 14, 182-3, 325 n. [III. 82-3].

Thyestes, 257.

Thyestes, see Carcinus, and Chæremon.

Timæus, 57.

Timotheus, 18, 72.

Tiresias, in E. Bacchæ, 277 ff.;

Phœn., 264 ff.;

in S. Antig., 137 ff.;

Œ. Tyr., 146 ff.

Titans, 93 ff. (Oceanus, 94; Prometheus, 93 ff.).

Titus Andronicus, see Shakespeare.

Trachiniæ, see Sophocles.

Tragic Drama, etc., see Haigh.

Trials of Pelias, see Thespis.

Triptolemus, in Chœrilus’ Alope, 6;

in S. Tript., 173.

Triptolemus, see Sophocles.

Troades, see Euripides.

Troilus, see Phrynichus.

Trojan Women, see Euripides.

Trygæus in A. Peace, 297.

Tucker, Professor, tr. of Æ. Suppl., 86 and n.

Tyndareus, in E. Or., 268 ff.

Typhos, 232.

Valckenaer, on Rhesus, 294 n.

Vanbrugh, Relapse [V. iv. 135], 105 and n.

Vanity Fair, 319.

Varia Historia, see Ælian.

Veiled Hippolytus, see Euripides.

Venus of Melos, 182.

Vergil, 20, 174;

Æneid, 174 n. [I. 203].

Verrall, Dr. A. W., on Æ. Agam., 100 and n., ff., 122 and n., 126;

Choeph., 143 and n., 258 n.;

Eum., 115 n., 116 n., 130 n.;

Septem, 91 and n.;

on E. Alc., 188 n., 190 ff.;

Androma., 222-3;

Bac., 281 n.;

Hel., 263;

H. Fur., 230 ff.;

Ion, 239-40;

Med., 195-7;

Or., 273 n.;

his Dramatic Criticism, p. v;

Bacchæ of E. and other Essays, 8 n.;

E. in a Hymn, 250 n.;

E.’s Apology, 262;

E. the Rationalist, 130 n., 190 and n., 250 n., 265 n.;

Four Plays of E., 196 n., 222-3, 228 and n., 262 n.

Virgin Martyr, see Dekker and Massinger.

Vitruvius, 53 ff., 58-9, 63 n. [V. vi., vii. 3-4].

Voltaire, 248, 257.

Walpole, Horace, 311.

Wasps, see Aristophanes.

Weighing of Souls, see Æ.

Weil, H., Note sur le Prométhée d’Eschyle, 93 n.

Welcker, 175 n.

Werle, Gregers, 317.

White, Professor J. W., 345 n.

Wieseler, 54 n.

Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Professor U. von, p. v, 29 n., 42 n., 247 n., 282, 294 n.;

Einleitung in die griechische Tragödie, 42 n.

Witch, see Middleton.

Women of Crete, see Eurip.;

of Etna, see Æ.;

of the Fawn-skin, see Æ.

of Trachis, see Trachiniæ and Sophocles;

Women Washing, see Sophocles.

Wordsworth, 127, 172, 308.

Xenocles, 243.

Xenophon, Hellenica [VI. iv. 33-4], 38 n.

Xerxes, 76, 228 ff.;

in Æ. Persæ, 87-9, 356.

Xuthus, in E. Ion, 236 ff.

Youths, see Æ., and Thespis.

Zenocrate, in Tamburlaine, 328.

Zethus, in E. Antiope, 298.

Zeus, 176, 277, 284.

— Cretan, 310.

— in Æ., 84 ff., 127 ff., 213;

in Eum., 112 ff.;

in W. Souls, 120;

in E. Andromeda, 300;

Antiope, 298;

Bellero., 297;

Helena, 260, 322;

Heracleidæ, 201;

H. Fur., 229 ff.;

Hippol., 208, 212;

Ion, 242;

Melan., 306;

Troad., 246.

— temple of, at Marathon, in E. Heracleidæ, 200.

IV. METRE

Accelerated Spondee, 343 n.

Accentual Dactyl, 356.

— Iambi, 328.

Anaclasis, 356.

Anacrusis, 334 n., 342, etc.

Anapæsis used by chorus, 337.

— in recitative, 74.

Anapæst, ⏑⏑–, 290 n., 331, 338, etc.

Anapæstic metre, 337-8.

— system, 337.

Antistrophe, 78, 344 ff.

Antithetic-mesodic periods, 361-2.

Antithetic periods, 360.

Asclepiad, greater, 8.

Bacchiac, – –⏑, 355.

Blank verse, 328.

Cæsura, 332-3, 336.

Catalectic verse, 337, 339;

catalectic foot, 334.

— — in anapæstic systems, 338.

Catalexis, 335, 337, 353-4, 359.

Choree, 352-3.

Choriambics, –⏑⏑–, 357.

Cola, three types of, 351.

Colon, 343 ff.

— definition of, 347.

Counter-turn, 344.

Cretic, –⏑–, 354.

— Final, 290 n., 333-4.

— in English, 355.

Cyclic Dactyls, 341.

Dactyl, –⏑⏑, 331, etc., 340.

Dactylic dipody, 356.

— hexameter, 339.

Dactyls, cyclic, 341.

Definition of a colon, 347.

— — ictus, 347-8.

— — metre, 327.

— — poetry, 327.

— — rhythm, 327.

Diæresis, 336-7.

Dialogue-metre, 74, 334 ff., 353.

Dipody, 338, 351-2.

Dochmiacs, 355, 358.

Dochmius, 358.

Elision, 329, etc., 344 n.

Emotional significance of metre, 353 ff.

Episodic trochaics, 338, 353.

Epode, 78, 345.

Equal cola, 351.

Final Cretic, 290 n., 333-4.

Foot-ictus, 342.

Greater asclepiad, 8.

Hexameter, Dactylic, 339.

Hexapody, 351-2.

Hiatus, 329-30.

Homeric metre, 339.

Iambic metre, 4, 327, 330 ff.

— senarius, 340.

Iambus, ⏑–, 74, 327 ff., 330, etc.

Ictus, 342, 347.

— definition of, 347.

Insetting, 342.

Ionic, – –⏑⏑, 356.

Ionicus a maiore, 356.

— — minore, ⏑⏑– –, 356.

Irrational syllables, 343 n., 347, 351, 362.

Licences, 331, 335.

Logaoedic systems, 341.

Long syllables, 328.

Lyrics, v, vi, 2, 338 ff.

Mesode, 344, 361.

Mesodic periods, 361-2.

Metre, vi, 327 ff.

— definition of, 327.

— in comedy, 334.

— of S. Philoctetes, 181;

of E. Orestes, 315, 334.

Molossus, – – –, 354.

Music, Greek, 339, etc.

Octonarius, 335.

— trochaic, 339.

Palinodic-antithetic periods, 361.

— — -mesodic periods, 361-2.

Palinodic-mesodic periods, 361-2.

— periods, 360.

Parœmiacs, 338 and n.

Pentapody, 351.

Period, 343, 359 ff.

Pitch-accent, 327 n.

Poetry, definition of, 327.

Postlude, 344, 362.

Prelude, 342, 344, 362.

Prodelision, 329.

Quantity, 327 ff.

Quasi-anapæsts, 354.

Quasi-trochees, 341.

Quinquepartite cola, 351.

Recitative, 337.

Resolved feet, 330, 334, 336, 342 n., 353, 355, 358.

Rhythm, p. vi, 327 ff.

— definition of, 327.

— in Philoctetes, 181.

Rules of Quantity, 328-9.

Scansion, 327 ff.;

of lyrics, v, vi, 338 ff.

Scheme of iambic verse, 334.

— — trochaic tetrameters, 337.

Senarius, iambic, 340.

Sentence, 343, etc.

Spondaic words lacking in English, 354.

Spondee, – –, 181, 330, etc., 341, 353.

Stichic period, 359-60.

— -mesodic period, 361.

Stress-accent, 327, 342, 347.

“Striking-up,” 342 n.

Strophe, 78, 344 ff.

Synapheia, 330.

Syncopated rhythm, 341.

Synizesis, 332.

Tetrameter, Trochaic, 334 ff.

Tetrapody, 337, 351-2.

Tribrach, ⏑⏑⏑, 181, 331, 335.

Tripody, 351-2.

Trochaic tetrameter, 4, 334 ff.

— octonarius, 339.

Trochee, –⏑, 334 ff., 352.

Turn, 344.

Types of cola, 351.

— — period, 359 ff.

Unequal cola, 351.

Verse in lyrics, 346.

Virgilian metre, 339.

Voice-stress, 328.

Word-ictus, 348.

Notes in this chapter

Note 1 · See Haigh, The Tragic Drama of the Greeks, pp. 19 sq.Note 3 · τί ταῦτα πρὸς τὸν Διόνυσον; (Plutarch, Symposiaca, 615 A).Note 5 · These first paragraphs give a summary of the view almost universally held as to the origin of Greek tragedy. Of late, however, Professor SirNote 6 · Aristotle, Poetic, 1448a: διὸ καὶ ἀντιποιοῦνται τῆς τε τραγῳδίας καὶ τῆς κωμῳδίας οἱ Δωριεῖς.Note 7 · Ol., XIII, 18 sq.: ταὶ Διωνύσου πόθεν ἐξέφανεν σὺν βοηλάτᾳ χάριτες διθυράμβῳ; i.e. as the context shows, the dithyramb appeared first at CorNote 9 · Poetic, 1449a: γενομένη δ’ οὖν ἀπ’ ἀρχῆς αὐτοσχεδιαστική ... ἀπὸ τῶν ἐξαρχόντων τὸν διθύραμβον ... κατὰ μικρὸν ηὐξήθη προαγόντων ὅσον ἐγίγνεNote 10 · These narratives and conversations were naturally regarded as interruptions in the main business, and this feeling is marked by the name alwNote 11 · The text of the treatise is, however, incomplete. The author of the pseudo-Platonic Minos (321 A) speaks of the current belief that Thespis Note 13 · Ars Poetica, 275-7.Note 15 · βασιλεὺς ἦν Χοίριλος ἐν σατύροις (Plotius, De Metris, p. 2633, quoted by Haigh, Tragic Drama, p. 40).Note 16 · Frogs, 689: εἴ τις ἥμαρτε σφαλείς τι Φρυνίχου παλαίσμασιν. The allusion in the first instance points undoubtedly to the famous general PhrynNote 17 · Herod. VI, 21.Note 18 · Wasps, 220 (μέλη ἀρχαιομελισιδωνοφρυνιχήρατα).Note 19 · Birds, 748-51, reading ὥσπερ ἡ μέλιττα.Note 20 · λάμπει δ’ ἐπὶ πορφυρέαις παρῇσι φῶς ἔρωτος. Notice the exquisite alliteration. Sophocles no doubt had this line in mind when he wrote AntigoNote 21 · The writer of the Argument to the Persæ says: Γλαῦκος ἐν τοῖς περὶ Αἰσχύλου μύθων ἐκ τῶν Φοινίσσων Φρυνίχου φησὶ τοὺς Πέρσας παραπεποιῆσθαι.Note 22 · By M. Croiset, Hist. de la Litt. grecque, III, p. 49.Note 23 · This is asserted by his epitaph:— Αἴσχυλον Εὐφορίωνος Ἀθηναῖον τόδε κεύθει μνῆμα καταφθίμενον πυροφόροιο Γέλας, ἀλκὴν δ’ εὐδόκιμον ΜαραθώνNote 24 · This, however, is certainly stated by Aristotle (Nic. Ethics, 1111a). On the other hand, Æschylus says in the Frogs (886); Δήμητερ, ἡ θρέψασNote 25 · Aristotle, Poetic, 1449a.Note 28 · One of these occasions was that on which he presented the Œdipus Tyrannus.Note 29 · A fragment of Ion’s Ἐπιδημίαι remarks: τὰ μέντοι πολιτικὰ οὔτε σοφὸς οὔτε ῥεκτήριος ἦν, ἀλλ’ ὡς ἄν τις εἷς τῶν χρηστῶν Ἀθηναίων.Note 30 · Aristophanes, too, in the Frogs (v. 82), bears witness to his charm: ὁ δ’ εὔκολος μὲν ἐνθάδ’, εὔκολος δ’ ἐκεῖ· “Sophocles, on the other handNote 31 · Œd. Col. 1225-8.Note 32 · Poetic, 1460b: Σοφοκλῆς ἔφη αὐτὸς μὲν οἵους δεῖ ποιεῖν, Εὐριπίδην δὲ οἷοι εἰσίν.Note 36 · Suidas (s.v. Σοφοκλῆς): καὶ αὐτὸς ἦρξε τοῦ δρᾶμα πρὸς δρᾶμα ἀγωνίζεσθαι, ἀλλὰ μὴ τετραλογίαν.Note 37 · In the Anonymous Life.Note 39 · The most celebrated is the description of the sun as a “clod” (Orestes, 983). Alcestis, 904 sqq., may very possibly refer to the death of AnNote 40 · XV, 20.Note 46 · Not all. The elegance of his iambic style excited Aristophanes’ admiration: indeed he confessed to imitating it, and the great Cratinus inveNote 52 · Ibid. 959: σύνεσμεν may recall Grant Allen’s famous sentence about taking Hedda Gabler down to dinner.Note 53 · Of these three points the first two come from Suidas (under the article Νεόφρων), the third from the argument to the extant Medea: τὸ δρᾶμα Note 54 · vv. 1211-6.Note 55 · There is good reason to suppose that what we possess is a second version. The scholiast on Aristophanes mentions passages as parodies of linNote 56 · In his ὑπομνήματα, quoted by the Argument to the Medea.Note 58 · Unless we except the Rhesus (996 lines).Note 60 · The name is not certain. The book is variously called ὑπομνήματα (“notes”), ἐπιδημίαι (“visits”), and συνεκδημητικός. The first is not a “naNote 61 · Plutarch (De Profectu in Virtute, 79 E), no doubt quoting from Ion, tells us that at a critical moment in a boxing match Æschylus nudged IonNote 62 · Plutarch, Pericles, Chap. V.Note 64 · One of them bears the curious title “Great Play” (μέγα δρᾶμα), but nothing is known of it.Note 65 · Frogs, 1425.Note 66 · XXXIII, 5 (Prof. Rhys Roberts’ translation).Note 68 · Croiset III, p. 400 (n.), thus explains the strange words of Suidas, ἐπεδείκνυτο δὲ κοινῇ σὺν καὶ Εὐριπίδῃ.Note 69 · Haigh, Tragic Drama of the Greeks, p. 409.Note 70 · Ath. X, 451 C.Note 72 · Ibid. 1456a (Butcher’s translation).Note 73 · Plutarch, Symposiaca, 645 E.Note 74 · Thesm. 100: μύρμηκος ἀτραπούς.Note 75 · Aristotle, Poetic, 1456a.Note 78 · Such a sentence as that of M. Orgon in Le jeu de l’amour et du hasard (I, ii.): “Va, dans ce monde, il faut être un peu trop bon pour l’êtreNote 79 · Protagoras, 315 E.Note 80 · Symposium, 198 C. Socrates says of Agathon’s panegyric upon Eros: καὶ γάρ με Γοργίου ὁ λόγος ἀνεμίμνησκεν. The whole speech of Agathon is inNote 81 · Thesm. 130 sqq.Note 83 · It is noteworthy that Socrates’ famous “prophecy of Shakespeare” (Symposium, 223 D), “one who can write comedy can write tragedy and vice veNote 84 · The attribution of this play to Critias is not certain, but probable; it is accepted by Wilamowitz. The new life of Euripides by Satyrus (seNote 85 · Eratosthenes, II.Note 86 · Poetic, 1453b.Note 89 · Aristotle, Rhetoric, III, 12, 2: βαστάζονται δὲ οἱ ἀναγνωστικοί, οἷον Χαιρήμων· ἀκριβὴς γὰρ ὥσπερ λογογράφος.Note 91 · Athenæus, fr. 10: δρᾶμα πολύμετρον.Note 94 · Symonds, Studies in the Greek Poets, II, p. 26.Note 96 · Athenæus III, 98 D, reports, for example, that he called a javelin βαλλάντιον (properly “purse”), because “it is thrown in the face of the fNote 102 · Ælian, V.H. XIV, 40.Note 109 · We have only one title (Telephus) which implies a legendary theme.Note 110 · Meineke suggests that the subject is an incident related by Xenophon, Hellenica, VI, iv. 33, 34.Note 113 · Athenæus XIII, 595 F.Note 115 · κατὰ ἰατρῶν (Stobæus, 102, 3). He was thus a precursor of Molière and Mr. Bernard Shaw.Note 116 · Diogenes Laertius, VII, 173.Note 117 · This point is made by Bernhardy, Grundriss der Gr. Litteratur II, ii. p. 72.Note 119 · The most amazing example is that of the “Three Unities”—those of Action, Time, and Place—of which such a vast amount has been heard and whicNote 122 · See Wilamowitz-Moellendorff’s magnificent Einleitung in die griechische Tragödie, pp. 48-51 (e.g. “nicht mehr Aristoteles der aesthetiker soNote 127 · 1462a, b. (The phrasing in the summary above is borrowed from Butcher.) See further 1449b.Note 136 · οἱ ἐν τῷ φανερῷ θάνατοι.Note 1 · Plato (Symposium, 175 E) makes Socrates congratulate Agathon on his success in the presence of “more than 30,000 Greeks”. Modern archæologisNote 3 · This account is based on Dörpfeld (Das griechische Theater, Abschnitt VII) who believes there was no stage, and on Haigh (Attic Theatre³, edNote 6 · By Wieseler and others.Note 8 · ἀναβαίνω: Knights, 148; Acharnians, 732; Wasps, 1342.Note 9 · καταβαίνω: Eccles. 1151; Wasps, 1514.Note 10 · Euripides, Ion, 727, Electra, 4 sq., Herc. Fur. 119. As Haigh (3rd ed., p. 167) points out, “in the last passage it is the chorus which makeNote 11 · This is a strong and favourite argument for the stage; when Haigh (3rd ed., p. 168) denies this because “a sufficient reason is ... the factNote 13 · Symposium, 194 B.Note 14 · Ars Poetica, 278: Æschylus et modicis instravit pulpita tignis.Note 20 · Das griechische Theater, p. 364. After the publication of this view Dörpfeld altered his opinion, and suggested (Bull. Corr. Hell. 1896, p. Note 22 · In Plato’s time this was notably so (Laws, 659 A-C, 700 C, 701 A).Note 23 · Plutarch, Nicias, 524 D.Note 24 · Aristotle, Rhetoric, III, i.Note 25 · This is the usual term employed. See, however, Haigh³, p. 13, note 3: “the word τετραλογία was applied only to a group of four plays connectNote 27 · τράγος. This was supposed to be the origin of the word “tragedy” (τραγῳδία “goat-song”).Note 28 · Vitruvius, V, vi., and Pollux, iv., 126.Note 29 · Professor Ridgeway makes much use of this custom in his theory that Greek drama originated in celebrations at the tombs of great persons. SeNote 30 · Haigh³, p. 187.Note 32 · Pollux (iv. 128), who gives the most definite description, adds: “one must understand it at each door, as it were in each house,” but his unNote 33 · In fact Pollux, who is fond of making a particular case into a general rule, may have had this instance in his head. He writes (iv. 128): “tNote 35 · This story occurs in the anonymous Life of Æschines.Note 37 · The Œdipus Coloneus is an exception. See Jebb’s Introduction, 3rd ed., pp. 7, 8.Note 38 · Cp. the vigorous protest of Pratinas (p. 6).Note 39 · Pherecrates, Cheiron, frag. 1, cp. Arist. Thesmoph. 100.Note 40 · Ar. Frogs, 1314.Note 41 · We hear from the scholiast on Choephorœ, 900, that the same actor took the part of Pylades and of the servant who gives the alarm. The latteNote 42 · Told by the scholiast on Aristophanes, Frogs, 303.Note 43 · The slovenliness in this regard of many modern actors is mostly due to “long runs”. After saying the same thing hundreds of times, an actor Note 44 · See Haigh³, p. 279 sq., for some highly interesting extracts.Note 45 · Poetic 1456a (tr. Butcher).Note 47 · This was the normal mode of entry, but the plot sometimes demanded others. In the Eumenides the Chorus rush in pell-mell; so probably in theNote 51 · This was not always an advantage when comedy held the scene. There is a delightfully impudent passage in the Frogs (v. 297) where Dionysus tNote 52 · For a detailed description of the seating see Haigh³, pp. 94-101.Note 53 · It is a fact familiar to students of comparative religion that obscenity is often a part of ritual. This is true of several Greek worships, Note 54 · Puchstein would date it earlier (end of the fifth century).Note 55 · Plutarch, Liber Amatorius, 756 B, C.Note 56 · ἐκσυρίττειν (“to hiss off”).Note 57 · Demosthenes, De Falsa Legatione, § 337.Note 58 · Ethics, X, 1175 B.Note 7 · vv. 91-5 (Professor Tucker’s translation).Note 9 · Date: 472 B.C. Arrangement: protagonist, Atossa and Xerxes; deuteragonist, Messenger and Darius.Note 11 · This was a satyric play, and must not be confused with the extant Prometheus.Note 12 · See Patin, Eschyle, p. 211.Note 13 · Henry V, IV, viii.Note 18 · Life of Aristides, III.Note 19 · Dr. Verrall, however, in his Introduction (pp. xiv, xv) sees technical drama of the highest kind in the choosing of the champions. As the ThNote 20 · Müller-Heitz (Griechische Litteraturgeschichte, ii. p. 88) point out, also, that this play needs more elaborate machinery than any other extNote 21 · Bia (“Violence”), also present, is a mute.Note 22 · See H. Weil’s masterly Note sur le Prométhée d’Eschyle (Le drame antique, pp. 86-92).Note 24 · It is fairly certain that it dealt with Menelaus’ visit to Egypt on his way back from Troy. He was shipwrecked on an island and the prophetiNote 26 · See especially his Introduction (pp. xiii-xlvii of the 2nd edition).Note 29 · The Relapse, V, iv. 135.Note 33 · The dead man is undoubtedly supposed to send aid in a mysterious way, but no ghost appears, as in the Persæ. This discrepancy points to a chNote 36 · vv. 313: δράσαντι παθεῖν.Note 37 · Arrangement.—Croiset gives: protagonist, Orestes; deuteragonist, Apollo; tritagonist, Athena, priestess, ghost of Clytæmnestra. This groupinNote 41 · It is implied by the title of the drama that they assume the title Eumenides or “Gracious Ones,” but this title is not used in the play itseNote 45 · Dr. Verrall (Introduction to his edition, pp. xxxii, xxxiii) explains the reconciliation of the Furies as the result of a mystic revelation Note 48 · This vital point is admirably demonstrated by Dr. Verrall on v. 1046.Note 52 · βρῦτον.Note 53 · On the death of Kirk-White: “’Twas thine own genius gave the fatal blow,” etc. The fiery verse, ὅπλων ὅπλων δεῖ· μὴ πύθῃ τὸ δεύτερον, recallNote 54 · Frogs, 911-3.Note 55 · Meineke, II, p. 1177.Note 56 · οἱ θεῶν ἀγχίσποροι οἱ Ζηνὸς ἐγγύς ὧν κατ’ Ἰδαῖον πάγον Διὸς πατρῴου βωμός ἐστ’ ἐν αἰθέρι, κοὔπω σφιν ἐξίτηλον αἷμα δαιμόνων. Cp. Plato, Note 57 · Oration 52.Note 59 · Titus Andronicus, II, i. 5-7.Note 61 · Ag. 494-5. In spite of Dr. Verrall’s ingenious remarks, it seems best to take this phrase in the traditional way, as a mere extravagance.Note 80 · Haigh, Tragic Drama, pp. 82 sq.Note 82 · Professor Gilbert Murray, Literature of Ancient Greece, p. 217.Note 84 · Frogs, 1119 sqq.Note 88 · Cp. Septem, 592-4 (Aristides), P.V. 1068 (Themistocles), and the references to the Areopagus (vv. 681-710) and to the Athenian Empire (vv. 3Note 89 · Choeph. 313 sq.: δράσαντι παθεῖν, τριγέρων μῦθος τάδε φωνεῖ.Note 93 · Æschylus never worked himself entirely free from this savage conception of sin as a material defilement. Orestes, among the proofs that he hNote 94 · See Dr. Verrall’s discussion of the prologue to the Eumenides, Euripides the Rationalist, pp. 220-4.Note 2 · For the arguments see Jebb’s Introduction (pp. li-liv) to the Ajax. He thinks Antigone the earlier.Note 5 · See Jebb’s Introduction to the play (pp. xxviii-xxxii).Note 6 · The arrangement is uncertain. Jebb gives, protagonist: Antigone, Tiresias, Eurydice; deuteragonist: Ismene, guard, Hæmon, the messengers; trNote 9 · Rhetoric, III, xvi. 9.Note 10 · Jebb’s Introduction, pp. xvii-xx.Note 15 · Choeph. 1075-6 (Verrall’s translation).Note 17 · vv. 616-21.Note 23 · See Aristotle, Poetic, 1454b.Note 27 · The entry of Fortinbras at the end of Hamlet is closely similar. Perhaps it is fear of anti-climax which causes producers nowadays to omit tNote 35 · vv. 575-7 (Jebb’s translation).Note 41 · Deianira’s plan, moreover, reads like a sort of dilution of Medea’s, and her last moments (vv. 900-22) recall the description in the AlcestiNote 42 · v. 427. Cp. Eur. Helena, 567: ποίας δάμαρτος;Note 43 · Jebb points out that Trach. 416 and Supplices 567 are practically identical.Note 47 · That even the equable Sophocles did on occasion embody criticism of other playwrights in his works is shown by such passages as Electra 1288Note 50 · E.g. Mahaffy (History of Gk. Lit., Poets, pp. 309-12).Note 51 · Christ (Geschichte der Gr. Lit. p. 210) who compares Heracles here to the δαιμόνιον σημεῖον of Socrates.Note 52 · K. O. Müller (Gr. Lit., ii. p. 124) who is opposed by Bernhardy (II, ii. p. 370).Note 56 · See Jebb’s 2nd edition (p. xxvii with footnote).Note 57 · Or. 52.Note 58 · vv. 936 sqq., 987 sq., etc.Note 62 · Jebb (Introd. pp. xl, xli, 2nd ed.) seems unwilling to allow any direct allusions. But see vv. 385 sqq., 456 sqq., and particularly 1035 sqqNote 63 · The arrangement of the parts is not certain. But the important fact seems clear that a fourth actor was here used not tentatively (as in othNote 68 · vv. 670-80 (Jebb’s version).Note 70 · σμικρὸς λόγος four times (vv. 569, 620, 1116, 1152), σμικρὸν ἔπος once (v. 443), and ἓν μόνον ἔπος once (v. 1615 sqq.). Dr. Mackail (LectureNote 77 · vv. 62 sq.: “Such ... are these haunts, not honoured in story, but rather in the life that loves them” (Jebb).Note 82 · See Jebb, Introduction, pp. xxi sq.Note 85 · Ad Quintum Fratrem, II, xv. 3.Note 86 · Fr. 344: πόνου μεταλλαχθέντος οἱ πόνοι γλυκεῖς, and fr. 345: μόχθου γὰρ οὐδεὶς τοῦ παρελθόντος λόγος; recall Æneid, I, 203: forsan et haec oNote 87 · De Subl. XV, 7: ἄκρως πεφάντασται.Note 88 · For the Recognition-scene of this play, cp. Aristotle, Poetic, 1454b.Note 89 · Birds, vv. 100 sqq.Note 90 · These have been published and annotated by Dr. A. S. Hunt (who, with Dr. B. P. Grenfell, discovered these and so many other precious remainsNote 91 · Welcker thought that the wanderings of Europa formed the subject.Note 92 · The word ῥοῖβδος is inserted as a stage-direction (παρεπιγραφή). It no doubt means that the babe Hermes is playing his lyre “within”.Note 93 · The passage is amusing: χαίρει ἀλύων, “he is in a rapture of joy,” is an excellent phrase for this earliest of maestri; but, as Dr. Hunt remNote 94 · The name is not certain. All that can be asserted is that the tragedy dealt with Eurypylus’ death, in defence of Troy, at the hands of NeoptNote 96 · See e.g. the remarks in Creon’s opening speech (Ant. vv. 175-90).Note 102 · There are no less than thirty iambic lines thus divided. The name for such division is ἀντιλαβή.Note 1 · O.C. 1697, translated by Jebb: “Ah, so care past can seem lost joy!”Note 3 · Dr. J. W. Mackail (Lectures on Greek Poetry, p. 150 sq.) has described these lines with brilliant aptness. “The language is so simple, so apNote 1 · This figure includes the Rhesus, the authenticity of which is not certain.Note 2 · It is almost certain that only two actors were employed, Alcestis being mute in the last scene (i.e. the character was apparently borne by aNote 3 · The true explanation, as Dr. Hayley points out, is that the two actors are already engaged (as A. and H.) so that the queen is presented by Note 4 · The celebrated “tag” beginning πολλαὶ μορφαὶ τῶν δαιμονίων (vv. 1159-63), which is found also at the close of Medea (practically), Helena, ANote 7 · The late Dr. A. W. Verrall’s brilliant theory of this play it will be better to discuss later (see pp. 190 sq.).Note 10 · Euripides the Rationalist, pp. 1-128.Note 11 · The hurried obsequies probably do not fall into this category. We are almost certainly to assume that as Alcestis’ sacrifice is to be made oNote 17 · Poetic, 1454b.Note 18 · Four Plays of Euripides, pp. 125-30.Note 25 · vv. 944 sq. Two MSS., however (followed by Murray), give the second line to Medea.Note 32 · Arrangement: protagonist, Iolaus, Eurystheus; deuteragonist, Demophon, Alcmena; tritagonist, Copreus, Macaria, attendant, messenger. There wNote 36 · Professor Murray, however, supposes another lacuna here, and thinks there were two semi-choruses, one party supporting Alcmena, the other diNote 46 · Hercules Furens, vv. 151-64.Note 47 · vv. 997-9; v. 990, referring to the hostility of Hera, is too vague to stand as a warrant for the divine birth of Heracles.Note 56 · Arrangement (according to Croiset): protagonist, Hippolytus; deuteragonist, Aphrodite, Phædra, Theseus (the body of Phædra being representedNote 57 · This additional name (The Crowned H.) was given to distinguish the play from the earlier Ἱππόλυτος Καλυπτόμενος (now lost), or Hippolytus VeNote 80 · Agamemnon, vv. 160-83.Note 96 · Frogs, 1041; Thesm. 497, 547.Note 101 · Aristophanes in the Clouds (v. 1165 sq.) parodies vv. 174 sq. The Clouds was produced in 423 B.C. In Hecuba, v. 462, reference seems to be mNote 102 · Its popularity in Byzantine times is no bar to this statement. Probably all the three plays, Hecuba, Phœnissæ, and Orestes, were chosen becaNote 103 · See Mr. Hadley’s admirable Introduction to the play (pp. ix-xii).Note 129 · It is usually supposed to mean “one of the second-rate plays”.Note 136 · v. 166. This is the type of drama at which Sophocles shook his head and which Aristophanes reviled. But it must have made many a slave-holdiNote 144 · Arrangement (according to Croiset): protagonist, Amphitryon, Madness; deuteragonist, Megara, Iris, Theseus; tritagonist, Lycus, Heracles, meNote 149 · Four Plays of Euripides, pp. 134-98.Note 154 · The appearance of Pallas (vv. 1002-6) is regarded by Verrall as “a chance blow received by the madman from the falling ruins of the chamber”Note 163 · The plot strongly recalls the incident after the battle of Delium (424 B.C.), when the victorious Bœotians at first refused to surrender theNote 164 · The Hypothesis says: τὸ δὲ δρᾶμα ἐγκώμιον Ἀθηναίων (altered by Dindorf with general approval to Ἀθηνῶν).Note 168 · She has arrayed herself, not in black but in festal robes (vv. 1054-6)—an interesting parallel with the fine ending of the second act of Mr.Note 23 · Arrangement (probable): protagonist, Hecuba; deuteragonist, Athena, Cassandra, Andromache, Helen; tritagonist, Poseidon, Talthybius, MenelauNote 24 · Ælian, Var. Hist. ii. 8.Note 32 · The arrangement is uncertain. Perhaps: protagonist, Iphigenia; deuteragonist, Orestes, messenger, Athena; tritagonist, herdsman, Pylades, ThNote 33 · Murray and others place it about 414-2, Wilamowitz, 411-9.Note 46 · See Verrall, Eur. the Rationalist, pp. 217-30 (Euripides in a Hymn).Note 47 · Longinus, de Subl. xv. 3.Note 49 · v. 73: ἐξ αἱμάτων γοῦν ξάνθ’ ἔχει τριχώματα, a grotesque thought which we have just heard (as Murray points out in his apparatus) from IphigNote 57 · Arrangement: protagonist, Electra; deuteragonist, Orestes, Clytæmnestra; tritagonist, farmer, old man, messenger, Castor. Pylades and PolydeNote 58 · From vv. 1347-56 it is clear that the Sicilian expedition had already sailed, but that news of the disaster had not yet reached Athens.Note 59 · Bernhardy, Geschichte der griechischen Poesie II, ii. p. 490.Note 76 · See Verrall’s discussion in his edition of the Choephorœ (Introd. pp. xxxiii-lxx).Note 77 · Probable Arrangement: protagonist, Helen, the god (whether Castor or Pollux); deuteragonist, Teucer, Menelaus, Egyptian messenger; tritagoniNote 86 · See Four Plays of Euripides, pp. 43-133 (Euripides’ Apology).Note 88 · The idea is taken from the famous recantation of Stesichorus, which asserted that Helen never went to Troy.Note 90 · vv. 20-1, 256-9 (rejected by Murray, after Badham).Note 93 · Arrangement (according to Croiset): protagonist, Jocasta, Creon; deuteragonist, Antigone, Polynices, Menœceus; tritagonist, pædagogus, EteocNote 96 · Verrall, Eur. the Rationalist, pp. 236 sq.Note 100 · Mr. Powell, however, rightly remarks that vv. 1265-6 are “strained”.Note 104 · vv. 1090-1199 (the ῥῆσις containing the description of the Seven).Note 107 · One notices the criticism (vv. 751 sq.) of Æschylus, Septem (vv. 375 sqq.) when Eteocles declares that to give a list of his champions wouldNote 109 · In this passage an allusion has by some been supposed to Alcibiades’ return to Athens (411 B.C.).Note 112 · Croiset gives the probable arrangement: protagonist, Orestes, messenger; deuteragonist, Electra, Menelaus, Phrygian; tritagonist, Helen, TynNote 134 · vv. 72-92. Compare the amusing little passage-of-arms, vv. 107-11 (see Verrall, Four Plays, pp. 219 sq.).Note 151 · First Menelaus says that Glaucus spoke to him “from the waves” (v. 362), but from v. 365 (ἐμφανῶς κατασταθείς) it seems that the person is sNote 154 · Professor Gilbert Murray (Euripides and his Age, pp. 160 sqq.) has some beautiful and striking observations on the epiphany of Apollo and itNote 155 · Paley says that this play is more frequently quoted by ancient writers than all the works of Æschylus and Sophocles together.Note 160 · See Professor Murray (Euripides and his Age, pp. 183 sq.). I now think that what I wrote about the psychology of Dionysus and Pentheus (The Note 164 · Murray, Euripides and his Age, p. 196. My quotation, of course, does not imply that Professor Murray is guilty of the confusion of thought iNote 165 · The view mentioned in this paragraph will be found worked out in the present writer’s Riddle of the Bacchæ. This theory has met with much scNote 166 · vv. 632 sq.:— πρὸς δὲ τοῖσδ’ αὐτῷ τάδ’ ἄλλα Βάκχιος λυμαίνεται· δώματ’ ἔρρηξεν χαμᾶζε. συντεθράνωται δ’ ἅπαν ... συντεθράνωται, however, isNote 167 · To this view no complete answer has yet been made. All that can possibly be said is what Professor Gilbert Murray (Euripides and his Age, ppNote 169 · The attachment between Artemis and Hippolytus is a remarkable exception. The stories concerning the “loves” of gods and goddesses for mortalNote 171 · Bellerophon, fr. 294, 7: εἰ θεοί τι δρῶσιν αἰσχρόν, οὐκ εἰσὶν θεοί.Note 172 · Arrangement: Croiset gives: protagonist, Agamemnon, Achilles; deuteragonist, Old Man, Iphigenia, messenger; tritagonist, Menelaus, ClytæmnesNote 173 · For these see Professor Murray’s text, especially his preface.Note 180 · Poetic, 1454a.Note 182 · The Detectives (Ἰχνευταί) of Sophocles is now known to us by extensive fragments, see pp. 175 sq.Note 183 · Murray puts it “perhaps even before 438”.Note 185 · Odyssey IX. 105-566.Note 189 · Anapæsts in other feet than the first, and occasional violations of the rule of the final cretic (see Chapter VI).Note 191 · The arrangement of the cast is not clear; perhaps: protagonist, Hector, Odysseus; deuteragonist, Æneas, Rhesus, Diomedes, charioteer; tritagNote 4 · Another argument on this side, which is perhaps new, lies in the fact that almost all the action takes place at night—an unique feature. TheNote 7 · It suffices to mention Scaliger, Böckh, Hermann, Valckenaer, and Wilamowitz-Moellendorff.Note 8 · Upheld, e.g. by Christ and Murray.Note 11 · On the whole question see Mr. W. H. Porter’s excellent paper, “The Euripidean Rhesus in the Light of Recent Criticism” (Hermathena, xvii. ppNote 13 · Euripides revises even the diction of his predecessor. Æschylus wrote φαγέδαινα δ’ ἥ μου σάρκας ἐσθίει ποδός; Euripides repeats the line witNote 15 · Quomodo historia conscribenda, § 1.Note 16 · See Hartung’s masterly treatment in Euripides Restitutus, II, pp. 344-60.Note 17 · Ruskin, Mornings in Florence, I, 14.Note 19 · Eratosthenes (Catast. 15, quoted by Nauck) says: οὐχ εἵλετο τῷ πατρὶ συμμένειν οὐδὲ τῇ μητρί, ἀλλ’ αὐθαίρετος εἰς τὸ Ἄργος ἀπῆλθε μετ’ ἐκείνNote 20 · I, 33.Note 21 · See Goethe’s enthusiastic and brilliant discussion, Altgriechische Literatur (Works, Vol. V, p. 127, edition of 1837).Note 22 · Hartung’s brilliant sketch of Phaethon’s character (Eur. Restitutus, II, pp. 192 sq.), however imaginary, will be read with interest.Note 23 · This is an acute suggestion of Goethe.Note 25 · δένδρεα φίλοισιν ὠλέναισι ψυκτήρια λέξεται.Note 28 · The scholiast on Frogs, v. 53, which was performed in 405 B.C. (the year after Euripides’ death) mentions the Hypsipyle among recent plays.Note 29 · The critic Didymus, for instance, knew the Hypsipyle better than the Bacchæ. For “Achelous” as a synonym for “water” he quotes the former plNote 30 · That is, “the beginning of doom”.Note 31 · Hartung, Eur. Rest. II, p. 442.Note 32 · Μελανίππη ἡ σοφή, so called to distinguish it from Μ. δέσμωτις, or Melanippe in Prison. The latter play seems to have been much less importaNote 34 · ἔχει δὲ διπλοῦν σχῆμα, τὸ μὲν τοῦ ποιητοῦ, τὸ δὲ τοῦ προσώπου τοῦ ἐν τῷ δράματι, τῆς Μελανίππης (quoted by Nauck).Note 35 · Jupiter Tragœdus, 41.Note 37 · Cp. Aristotle’s criticism, Poetic, 1454a: τοῦ δὲ ἀπρεποῦς καὶ μὴ ἁρμόττοντος (παράδειγμα) ... ἡ τῆς Μελανίππης ῥῆσις.Note 38 · Moralia, 110 D, 998 E.Note 39 · Poetic, 1454a.Note 45 · Mr. F. Manning, Scenes and Portraits (Preface, p. viii).Note 46 · Aristotle, Poetic, 1460b: Σοφοκλῆς ἔφη αὐτὸς μὲν οἵους δεῖ ποιεῖν, Εὐριπίδην δὲ οἷοί εἰσιν.Note 47 · Frogs, vv. 850, 1043 sq.Note 56 · Andromache, Electra, Bacchæ, Rhesus, and the original text of the Iphigenia at Aulis (see Murray’s Apparatus at the end of the play). AristoNote 57 · In the extant plays. Of course there were others, which we cannot discuss with knowledge, e.g. the close of Melanippe the Wise.Note 58 · For the Iphigenia carries the Helena with it (see the discussion of the latter, pp. 260 sqq.). As a matter of cold fact, to be sure, TheoclyNote 60 · He seems in private conversation to have maintained the necessity of this; compare the criticism of Æschylus which he utters in the Frogs, 1Note 63 · Troades, vv. 1204-6. Cp. Helena, 1140-3.Note 64 · See Mr. W. H. S. Jones, The Moral Standpoint of Euripides, pp. 28 sq. This view is also set forth by Jebb, The Growth and Influence of ClassNote 65 · Orestes, vv. 982 sqq.: μόλοιμι τὰν οὐρανοῦ κτἑ.Note 66 · See Mr. E. F. Carritt, The Theory of Beauty, p. 156.Note 75 · M. Arnold, The Scholar-Gipsy. Cp. Mrs. Browning’s well-known lines on “Our Euripides the human”.Note 76 · Fr. 916:— μή μοι λεπτῶν θίγγανε μύθων, ψυχή· τί περισσὰ φρονεῖς, εἰ μὴ μέλλεις σεμνύνεσθαι παρ’ ὁμοίοις;Note 77 · Fr. 894:— σοφὸν γὰρ ἄνδρα, κἂν ἑκὰς ναίῃ χθονός, κἂν μήποτ’ ὄσσοις εἰσίδω, κρίνω φίλον. And Nestle (p. 368) aptly quotes from Schiller’s DoNote 78 · See the celebrated sketch of progressive degradation in Thucydides (III, 82, 83).Note 1 · A totally different thing from the written Greek accents ΄, `, and ῀, which refer to pitch, not stress.Note 2 · συνάφεια, “connexion,” “continuity.”Note 4 · Sophocles sometimes neglects this pause. Not only does he occasionally end a line with a word (such as the definite article) which belongs cNote 6 · No such lines are extant in Greek, but an analogy can be found in Ennius’ hexameter: Sparsis hastis longis campus splendet et horret. In theNote 8 · Iambics were adopted because nearer to the rhythm of everyday speech. It has been held, for instance by Dr. J. H. H. Schmidt, that iambics aNote 9 · Euripides is much fonder of this metre than the other two masters. Sophocles in particular is very sparing of it. That passage (Philoctetes,Note 10 · From καταλήγω, “to stop short”.Note 12 · διαίρεσις, “division”.Note 13 · For example, the splendid poem by Anacreon beginning πῶλε Θρῃκίη is printed by some in long lines, by others in short, even though the firstNote 14 · The meaning of this term is uncertain.Note 16 · Greek συγκοπή, “coalescence”. But ⏗ need not fill a foot: for instance in a true dactylic system we find (Œd. Col., 1082):— – ⏑ ⏑ – ⏑ ⏑ – – Note 18 · λογαοιδικός, “mingled of prose and verse”.Note 19 · ἀνάκρουσις, “striking up”.Note 20 · Not all, for the first short syllable may be part of a resolved foot.Note 21 · The first syllable of πρυμνησίων in the second line, though long, is musically equivalent to a short. Such syllables are marked with the sigNote 23 · In lyrics a long syllable (if it does not end with a consonant) may be shortened—instead of disappearing by elision—before a vowel.Note 24 · ἡ ἐπῳδός. The masculine word, ὁ ἐπῳδός, has a different meaning, with which we are familiar from the Epodes of Horace—a poem which repeats fNote 25 · Though my obligations to Dr. J. H. H. Schmidt’s volumes, especially Die Eurhythmie in den Chorgesängen der Griechen, are very great, I cannoNote 28 · It is therefore possible to scan the ordinary iambics of dialogue as trochees:— ˃ – ⏑ – ˃ – ⏑ – ˃ – ⏑ – ειθ ⁝ ωφελ | Αργους | μη δι|απτασθ|αNote 30 · Because spondaic words are lacking. It is sometimes said that the only spondee in English is “amen”. The peculiar pronunciation of this wordNote 32 · I take this figure from Schmidt’s Introduction (English Translation, p. 76).Note 34 · I have taken Schmidt’s readings and arrangement for the sake of an example. Murray’s arrangement is quite different.
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