FOOTNOTES TO THE CHOEPHORÆ
See Niebuhr’s Travels (§ 25, c. 4); Michaelis’ Commentaries on the Laws of Moses (Art. 135); and Southey’s Thalaba.
Dictionary—voce Goel, and Commentaries, § 131.
Die Thymele in der Orchestra ist durch ein Aschenkrug als Agamemnon’s Grab bezeichnet.—Droysen.
Hermes, or Mercury, in his capacity of guide of the dead (ψυχοπομπός) is here called Χθόνιος, or subterranean.
Iphigenia.
Proserpine.
See [Note 64] to Agamemnon.
Hermes or Mercury. See [Notes 55] and [56] above.
The Gorgon Medusa.
Agamemnon and Electra.
The Furies.—See next piece.