[8] I know no translation of the whole seven plays of Æschylus that I can recommend, though there be many admirable versions of the Agamemnon, but among the English reproductions of Sophocles let me call your attention to that of Mr. Whitelaw, of most of Euripides to that of Mr. Way. Both of these are eminently the work of scholars who are also poets.
[9] I need hardly add that the brilliant comedies of Aristophanes are to be found in the well known books of J. Hookham Frere and of Mr. Rogers, who has quite recently brought out another play.
[10] I say fresco because this is usually occupied with historical scenes.
[11] The reader can now consult the brilliant and suggestive Thucydides Mythistoricus of Mr. Cornford on this aspect of the historian and his work.
[12] Book iii., 82-4
[13] Cf. for example what Herodotus tells us in his fourth book of the affairs of Cyrene.
[14] I must refer the audience for details to the chapter on Thucydides in my History of Greek Literature.
[15] The minutiæ of rythm and harmony to which they condescended are such that I could not possibly make them clear to you in a short passage of a lecture, but must refer you to the chapters on Isocrates and Demosthenes in my History of Greek Literature.
[16] Cf. § 457 of my Greek Literature.
[17] On this Cf. §§ 416, 437 of my Greek Literature.