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Excerpt from Euripides the Rationalist: A Study in the History of Art and ReligionThe explanation of this discrepancy, which will here be offered, has at least one advantage. The reader will not be asked to dissent, as a matter of taste and aesthetic judgment, either from the ancient opinion or from the modern. Scarcely even the scorn of Schlegel is too much for many of the works of.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thou...

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About the Book The Classical Drama of ancient Greece has been preserved, as have many classical plays from ancient Roman society, and the Renaissance. Examples of classical and early drama include: Dramas of the Ancient World, The Trojan Women of Euripides, Oedipus, King of Thebes, The Prometheus of Æschylus, and The Ajax of Sophocles.About usTrieste Publishing's aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and n...

Excerpt from The 'Seven Against Thebes' of Aeschylus: With an Introduction, Commentary, and TranslationI have but a few words to say by way of preface to (i) the text, (2) the explanation, (3) the translation.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology...

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Excerpt from The 'Agamemnon' of Aeschylus: With an Introduction, Commentary, and Translation But the stern satisfaction, which at first they feel for the punishment of the offending Trojans, soon passes away, as they consider the suffering which the war has cost and the deep discontents which it has bred, and they have already sunk again into melancholy and foreboding when the question arises - Is the news true after all? How doubtful is the ...

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First published in 1914, this book by Arthur Woollgar Verrall focuses on various aspects of Dryden's writings and his age.

Originally published in 1905, this book contains four lengthy essays by A. W. Verrall on four plays by Euripides.

Originally published one year after his death, the book collects a selection of articles by the respected Classicist Arthur Verrall.

Excerpt from Euripides the Rationalist: A Study in the History of Art and ReligionThe explanation of this discrepancy, which will here be offered, has at least one advantage. The reader will not be asked to dissent, as a matter of taste and aesthetic judgment, either from the ancient opinion or from the modern. Scarcely even the scorn of Schlegel is too much for many of the works of.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thou...

Excerpt from Studies Literary and Historical in the Odes of Horace Tempted to push further, and finally resolved upon the present book. In fitting it for the Press, as upon other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstru...

Excerpt from The Bacchants of Euripides: And Other Essays Of the Essays contained in this volume, four have been published previously - "The First Homer" in The Quarterly Review, "The Lady of Cos" and "The Death of Cyrsilus" in The Classical Review, and "Christ before Herod" in The Journal of Theological Studies. They are here reprinted with the consent of the editors and proprietors of the respective journals, which I acknowledge with thanks...

Excerpt from The 'Choephori' of Aeschylus: With an Introduction, Commentary, and Translation Aeschylean plays ¿uctuated in popular usage before they ere fixed by the learned, and in sense, as distinct from form, the title describes our play better than it describes the entire work. Of the C/zoep/zori only this is true, not of the Orestea, or not to the same extent. The story of the Agra/226771720 is neither Apolline nor essentially religious...

Excerpt from Collected Literary Essays Classical and Modern Royal Society of Literature on November 28, 1912. We are much indebted to him for his kindness in allowing us to include this valuable appreciation, and we have to thank the Society for permission to reprint it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an import...

Excerpt from Essays on Four Plays of Euripides: Andromache, Helen, Heracles, Orestes The texts of Euripides to which I refer in this volume are the following. For the Andromache and the Heracles, the only two of the four plays which are included in the published volumes of Professor Gilbert Murray, I have used his edition. For the Helen I use the text of W. Dindorf in the 1869 edition (with apparatus criticus) of the Poetae Scenici. For the O...

Excerpt from The 'Agamemnon' of Aeschylus: With an Introduction, Commentary, and Translation Since the appearance of my former volume Kennedy, Paley, and J. F. Davies have died, honoured and regretted, as I need scarcely say, by me as by all students of literature. To Paley in particular, whatever may have been said or thought of his defects, I shall always profess myself deeply indebted. It was easy to disagree with him and to see the weak p...

Excerpt from Lectures on Dryden The general intention and purpose is apparent from the lectures themselves: they were essentially, addressed to students and more particularly t' Cambridge students. It was, I know, a special pleasure to my husband to have this opportunity of speaking to a Cambridge audience about a great Cambridge poet - 'john Dryden. Of Trinity College.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of...

Excerpt from The 'Eumenides' of Aeschylus: With an Introduction, Commentary, and Translation The composition of this book has been extended, by interruptions arising from my health or other causes, over some fifteen years. More than once it has been brought near to completion. I hope and believe that it has gained in maturity, but it may retain some traces of discontinuity, which, if found, the facts will explain. The books which I have most...

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