Ancient Greece; a sketch of its art, literature & philosophy viewed in connexion with its external history from earliest times to the age of Alexander the Great (1913)
Cotterill, H. B. (Henry Bernard), b. 1846 · New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company · leaf 507
n probably in Macedonia, Pentheus is torn topieces by infuriated Bacchanals. Of the eighteen extant plays of Euripides (excluding theRhesus, which is probably a later imitation, but includingthe Cyclops, the only surviving classical satyric drama) perhapsthe finest are the Alcestis (438), Medea… … 99- Euripides 362 THE PELOPONNESIAN WARknown and need not here be recounted. ^ But in order toillustrate some characteristics of the poet a few remarks maybe made on one of his less known dramas, the Eleclra. Allthree of the great Athenian dramatists treated the subject oithe Electra, and all three…
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