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EURIPIDES AND HIS AGE

by

GILBERT MURRAY

London Williams & Norgate

Henry Holt & Co., New York Canada: Wm. Briggs, Toronto India: R. & T. Washbourne, Ltd.

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_Editors_:

HERBERT FISHER, M.A., F.B.A., LL.D. PROF. GILBERT MURRAY, D.LITT., LL.D., F.B.A. PROF. J. ARTHUR THOMSON, M.A., LL.D. PROF. WILLIAM T. BREWSTER, M.A. (Columbia University, U.S.A.)

New York Henry Holt and Company

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EURIPIDES AND HIS AGE

BY

GILBERT MURRAY LL.D., D.Litt., F.B.A.

Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford

London Williams and Norgate

Printed by The London and Norwich Press Limited London and Norwich

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I Introductory 7

II Sources for a Life of Euripides: Memories remaining
in the Fourth Century: Youth: Athens after the Persian War: the
great Sophists 20

III What is a Greek Tragedy? Euripides' early Plays up to 438 B.C.,
"Alcestis" and "Telephus" 60

IV Beginning of the War: the Plays of Maturity from "Medea"
to "Heracles" 81

V Full Expression: the Embittering of the War:
Alcibiades and the Demagogues: the "Ion": the "Trojan Women" 107

VI After 415: Euripides' last years in Athens: from
"Andromeda" and "Iphigenia" to "Electra" and "Orestes" 142

VII After 408: Macedonia: "Iphigenia in Aulis": "Bacchae" 165

VIII The Art of Euripides: Traditional Form and Living Spirit:
the Prologue, the Messenger, the "God from the Machine" 198

IX The Art of Euripides, continued: The Chorus: Conclusion 228

Bibliography 247

Note on the Pronunciation of Names 251

Index 253

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