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 326
alistically excitingspectacular incidents. The actual tragedies seldom occurin the sight of the audience. Far more often the hero orheroine leaves the stage in despair, the chorus intervenes witha mournful ode, and then a messenger arrives with a narra-tive of the fatal occurrence. Shakespeare,… … THE GRAND CENTURY sent the Greeks narrated; and Horace, indeed, exalts it into aprinciple of dramatic art that Medea must not butcher herbabes in public. That the Greek dramatists so refrained wasprobably due to dramatic tradition as well as to the practicalnecessities of the case. When there was…
Art, Greek
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