Greek Tragedy in the Light of Vase Paintings

by John H. Huddilston

Transcriber’s Note:

The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

GREEK TRAGEDY

IN

THE LIGHT OF VASE PAINTINGS

(Size, about 1 ∶ 9)
MEDEIA AMPHORA IN THE OLD PINAKOTHEK, MUNICH
(Vid. p. [145] ff.)

GREEK TRAGEDY
IN
THE LIGHT OF VASE PAINTINGS

BY

JOHN H. HUDDILSTON

B.A. (Harv.), Ph.D. (Munich)

FORMERLY INSTRUCTOR IN GREEK IN THE NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AUTHOR OF ‘THE ESSENTIALS OF NEW TESTAMENT GREEK’ AND ‘THE ATTITUDE OF THE GREEK TRAGEDIANS TOWARD ART’

London

MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited

NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1898

Oxford

HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY

TO

PROFESSOR CARL RIEMENSCHNEIDER, Ph.D.

GERMAN WALLACE COLLEGE

BEREA, OHIO

WHOSE RARE CLASSICAL SCHOLARSHIP

IS ALL TOO LITTLE KNOWN

THIS VOLUME

BY ONE OF HIS FORMER PUPILS

IS AFFECTIONATELY

DEDICATED

Πλὴν ὁ Σιμωνίδης τὴν μὲν ζωγραφίαν ποίησιν σιωπῶσαν προσαγορεύει, τὴν δὲ ποίησιν, ζωγραφίαν λαλοῦσαν· ἃς γὰρ οἱ ζωγράφοι πράξεις ὁς γινομένας δεικνύουσι, ταύτας οἱ λόγοι γεγενημένας διηγοῦνται καὶ συγγράφουσιν.

Plutarch, De Gloria Athen., c. 3.

Nec mirum, si ista, quae tamen in aliquo posita sunt motu, tantum in animis valent, cum pictura, tacens opus et habitus semper eiusdem, sic in intimos penetrat adfectus, ut ipsam vim dicendi nonnumquam superare videatur.

Quintilian, Inst. Orat., xi. 3. 67.