Orestes of Euripides. Edited with introd., notes and metrical appendix by N. Wedd

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PRE FACE.

ina portant Oint in xvlhicli it disseristona his, Nauck'sor in dors' readings a re conamente dis in the note or in the Metrica Appendix. In preparing the notes I have derived mos heli frona the editions o Porson illi cla olefield annotations), Matthiae, tisgrave, tot an Paley. The introductoryreniaric in Hari ung's edition I Munci suggestive but in-

ges inge, V therar ol. os ille Cona position stelare, ' gives asuli account of Euripides lyri CS. Student who require surther in sortitation vitii regaristo Greel metre re reserre lto D IV hite' excellent translation fir clanaidi's Intro luction to the Rh3thnai an Metri os the Classical Languages V Boston, LI. S. A. 1883). D Schnaidi' systentis conanaen led by the scientisic clearnes oscit naethod, laepestheti excelleiace scit resulis and the conservative alti re

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vi PREFACE.

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CONTENT S.

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INTRODUCTIO N.

These legend aros uirile the influenc os the Delphic religio an received thei stillest expression in the teste iaos Aesch, lus 438 B. C. but vhat Poet ars gave thena literata

Tlae Nostor, a cyclic epic poein II Agia os Troegeia circ. 7S B. C. , in deat in vitii the late os Agamein non introduced Psalles as an associat os Orestes this potnis to Delphiani su Igesis that ille later legend was possit,i at ready in the proces os fornaation. A 3Tic poet nanaei Xanthus is s. aid lay Athenaeus I p. si A to have licen solio vel hi Stesichoriis

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fuddent Tyndarus, theria ther of Clytae nanestra, arrive Dona Sparta denaandin vengeance notae turderers Menelaus Sovera vect by lareat of Spartan laostilit i he hel piliis nephe vanil decide to renaain neutral. At illis o in Pylades amive Sisona Phocis to hare the late os testes, whol lae per Suade togo in PerSon to the assenabi xvlaicia is ust hie in collecte d. Thescen in the assenit, lycis descrilbe to Electra by a naeSSenger: the debat has restille in the condena nationis laeti atrici deS. Pylades an oreStes no v return to the palac an consulta vitii

For an account of the attena plec reconstriiction os Stesiclaoriis' Oresteia rona a corii binationis literar and artistic videiace, ee es

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Electram thei nexi Step the decide, first to kill Helen inliderio puni Sh Menelaus and propitiate the Argive people, and secomllyto et Ze Heranione, the aughter o Helen an Menelaus, inorde to orce ille lalter tander Pireat of his augiater' death toinduce theseo plerio revolae the Sentence. The barri cade me doors and effect thei objecto. Menelaus return and the hol a parie xvith in froni the walis herem Se to intercede villa theseo ple on thei bellati an Orestest about o natarde Hernatone, viae Apollo appear an SettieSali disti culti es by an nounc in that Helen vas not k ille aster alibut transporte to lae aven, nat bd ades is tota arr Electra and that Orestes, aster tena porar retirenient to Arcadia i to returnan Imarr Hernatone. Ali partie accept this aribitration and the play en is vitia an exlaoriation to Peace an a prayer sorvictor . II E PLA AS A TRAGEDY. The x iter os Hypothesis II telis us that this play vas

Dut atri ne Sanae tinae renaaria in atri ne Solution fine liasis criti

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the Alcestis an Pine Tyro of Sophocles an indeed many ther

I Seem then to have been the 1 adition to regar Pthi play

tion the wouin no justis u in Classing the Alcestis and substitute in Ore Sto together a bet Ono in to a peculiar

It votat appea then ilia the ancient coinmentator in in Si Stin in the Satyri or conii Character of the 1 este and

Ar. Poet. h. et Ἀνάγκη ἄρα ὁ καλως ἔχοντα Pθον μεταβάλλειν οὐκ εἰς εὐτυχίαν ἐκ δυστυχίας Ἀλλα τοὐνανrlo εξ εὐτυχίας εἰς δυστυχίαν Δι καὶ οἱ Εὐριπίδ ρ εγκαλοὐντες ὁ αὐτ ἁμαρτάνουσιν, ὁτι τουτο ὁρῆ ἐν ταῖ τραγουὁiαι καὶ πολλαὶ αὐτολει δυστυχίαν τελευτωσι.

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INTRODUCTTON. xiii

The eviden cessor the existence of this classis tragedies is assollows. First, the tradition ve by getetes περὶ διαφορὴς

ποιητῶν P. Cranaeri Anec dota, Vol. III. p. 337, ecl. 836 and by the anonynaous author of the amplatet περὶ κωμωδίας ap. d. VOl. . . , ecl. 839 , ac cor ling o vhicla Such plab A a theo restes an Alcestis o Euripides and the Electra of Sophocles vere not trage die but Satyri dramas in anon juno v author himself rightly draius a distinctio bet veen Such So-Called Satyricplay and the orthodox satyri drarnas . Se condiy the Statem enti Hypothesis M. to the Alcestis that Euripides brought out the Cressae, the Alcimaeo in Psophis, the Telephus and the Alcestis

See Hypoth. II. l. io τι δε δραμα κωμικωτέραν ἔχει την καταστροφὴν Itypoth. III. in ἰστέον ἡ τι πασα τραγWδία σύμφωνον ἔχει καὶ ob os ἐκ λύανη γὰρ ἄρχεται καὶ εἰ λύπην τελεο ῆι τ παριν ἐδρῆμά ἐστιν ex τραγικοὐ κωμικόν. Schol. ad . 69 η κατάληξι τη τρα , ὁὶα η εἰς θρηνον η εἰ πάθος καταλύει, et κωμ ὁ α εἰς σπονδὰς καιδιαλλαγάς ἴθεν ὁρῆται τόδε ὁ δρῶμα κωμικ καταλήξει χρησάμενον Se e

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xiv. I Τη ς', Regaristin the play a. a. vhole V are Stru Chtogether dis by three characteristic ivlaicia, When talcen together, stor an or differentiate it froin the ordinar type of Euripidean

partie concerne and we findoliat no ne has reali sufferet at ali secondi the Gies interest lies in the delineation o Character an no in the evolution o in plotio Ome tragi an inevitatae enit: hirdly, inere is a Strongan intentional vel os humour apparent in certain CeneS. As to the lappy ending there a re laur oster play is Euripide in Whicla Siluation Os extreni clanger

Satisfactor toruli concerned ine are the Alcestis, the Ion the Helena and the Iphigenia in Tauris of these itina be urged that in the two lassaliere is a certain uisering a πάθος, involve in the en dy sor in the Helena, Theoclymenu Slia to acquiesce in in los o Helen ivlaona he had xvi Siae tonaarry an in the Iphigenia in Tauris, Thoas has to acquieSce in the los of the ina age of Artentis Halchae praged vitia allatae

Stren th os bactaria superstition. So that there rem ain three