Book of illustrations : Ancient Tragedy
Produced by Al Haines
The University of Chicago Press
1904
ELECTRA, by Sophocles
ELECTRA, by Euripides
ALCESTIS, by Euripides
THE CYCLOPS, by Euripides
THE BACCHANALS, by Euripides
In the case of Aeschylus and Sophocles the numbering of lines agrees with that in the translations of Plumptre and in the original. In the plays from Euripides the numbering is that of the lines in the cheap translation (Routledge's Universal Library).
The passages quoted are from Plumptre's Translation
The Sacred Legends touched by this Trilogy would be familiar, in outline, to the Auditors: e. g.:
The woes of the House of Atreus: the foundation of them laid by Atreus when, to take vengeance on his brother Thyestes, he served up to him at a banquet the flesh of his own sons;
Richard G. Moulton
Aeschylus
Euripides
Sophocles
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BOOK OF
ILLUSTRATIONS
ANCIENT TRAGEDY
ILLUSTRATIONS
THE ANCIENT DRAMA
CONTENTS
REFERENCES
A CONDENSATION OF THE TRILOGY
STORY OF ORESTES
THE SEPULCHRAL RITES
COMPOSED BY AESCHYLUS, AND BROUGHT ON THE STAGE AT ATHENS AT THE FESTIVAL OF THE 'GREATER DIONYSIA,' IN MARCH OF 458 B. C., DURING THE POLITICAL EXCITEMENT OCCASIONED BY THE POPULAR ATTACK ON THE ARISTOCRATIC COURT OF MARS' HILL, OR AREOPAGUS
MEMORANDUM
TRILOGY OF THE ORESTEIA
FIRST PLAY: IN THE MORNING:
PROLOGUE
PARODE, OR CHORUS-ENTRY
ENTRY-ODE
EPISODE I
EXODUS, OR FINALE
SECOND PLAY: MIDDAY:
THE SEPULCHRAL RITES
PROLOGUE
EPISODE I
EXODUS, OR FINALE
THIRD PLAY: AFTERNOON:
EUMENIDES[1]
PROLOGUE
EPISODE I
EXODUS, OR FINALE
THE ELECTRA OF SOPHOCLES[1]
PROLOGUE
EPISODE I
EXODUS, OR FINALE
THE ELECTRA OF EURIPIDES[1]
PROLOGUE
EXODUS, OR FINALE
THE ALCESTIS OF EURIPIDES[1]
MEMORANDUM
PROLOGUE
PARODE, OR CHORUS-ENTRY
EPISODE I
EXODUS, OR FINALE
THE CYCLOPS OF EURIPIDES
THE BACCHANALS OF EURIPIDES[1]
PROLOGUE
PARODE, OR CHORUS-ENTRY
EPISODE I
PASSAGES