[1] Contrast Aristotle’s doctrine of plot as the soul of tragedy (Poetics, 1450 a 38). [↑]
[2] See above, pp. 38, 96, 106. [↑]
[3] Contrast Aristotle’s doctrine of ἁμαρτία (Poetics, 1453 a 10 ff.), as in Euripides’s Hippolytos; G. Norwood, Greek Tragedy, pp. 209 f., 213 f. [↑]
[4] Greek tragedy progressively reduced the lyric element in the drama, in harmony with the rhetorical trend of the Greek intellect, and approximated in language to ordinary speech; Aristotle, Poetics, 1450 b 9; Rhetoric, iii. 1 and 2; Haigh, The Tragic Drama of the Greeks, ch. vi, § 3. [↑]
[5] Contrast Greek tragedy; Butcher, Greek Genius, pp. 105 ff.; G. Norwood, Greek Tragedy, pp. 97 f., 114 f., 128 f., 177, 318, 324; W. Nestle, Euripides (1901). [↑]
[6] For its extension and popularity outside Athens, see Haigh, The Tragic Drama of the Greeks, chap. vi, § 4. [↑]
[7] Gawroński, Les sources de quelques drames indiens, pp. 1 ff. [↑]