The glory that was Greece : a survey of Hellenic culture and civilization (1915)
Stobart, J. C. (John Clarke), 1878-1933, Hopper, R. J. (Robert John), 1910- · Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott · leaf 318
y, the heroic or epiclegends. One or two exceptions there are; the Persse ofy£schylus is one such, for reasons which I have already ex-plained. Phrynichus also wrote a tragedy founded on con-temporary history, The Sack of Miletus, an episode of theIonian revolt. But such a theme came too near home,… … THE GRAND CENTURYour dramatists were restricted to the Bible for their choice ofsubjects instead of being entirely debarred from it. Theaudience knew the main outline of the story as soon as the playbegan. Thus the audience was often in the secret while thecharacters on the stage were not, and this…
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