The Troades of Euripides;

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THE Trojun Dumes is in many respuet tho busti thoplays of Euripides for schoo rea ling. The our playsodited by Porson are in the hand of ever Achoolboy, yet the were hosen or annotation by that great scholar, nos ecaus the were the est instruments to tho hand of the ea cher, ut bucause the are Preserve in a great number of eo lices, and eam si si in thos whichae chios used . t eas thre of these ur play aro es sited than mos of tho mortis of Euripidos tot put into tho hand of schoolboys, and non of them Pthinii are so sultabi sor his purposeas the TroadeS. This play oes nos derive iis interest rom theevolution o a tot Perhaps ne mightoa that in this particular condition os dramati excelleno the Prosides is tho weal est, hilo tho Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles is the strongest of the extant Greeli plays. ah Troades an hardi b sal to avo a

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plot. It a b describet in the fine phras of

But it has an conspicuous meriis It Chorat Odes are os singula brilliane and shili Tho debeginniniat verse 94 is a matchles piece of Workmanship. ni note ori that passage I have potntedout the splendi perfection o literar executionWhic Euripidos has there chieved. I have also advertet in tho notus to passage in Whic the poetshoWs his characteristic tendernes an subile pomero psychological analysis. h play abound in dis play o dialecti cunniniani rhetorical ingenuity. I should e rememberod that these πιδειξεις had Ortho Athenians ali ho charnis,hicli a spectacle adsor tho Romans and has stili foris. Tli dat of th play was the eventsul bear έ15 B. C. It was tho las plano iis tritogy henee, perhaps thealmos disproportionat devolopinent of the lyricalparis of the drama Tho musica element eum toliaVe been, as a ule, mos prominent in the lasspla o a tritogy. The two ther plays ero the Aleaeandrus and tho Palamedes, with the Sisyphus asthe Satyri supplomunt. 040ad that tholoe didno gain the rige, hic Was a Warded to Xenocles Willi ho Oedipus, Lycaon, meehae, and the Satyric

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divergenco in the commentary.

havo o dopen solet for the las hal of tho Baechae, o whiel tho irst 754 linus aro mund also in C. It is a singula thing that this , whicli omit tho last halfo tho Bacchae, omit also the whol of the Troades, though it contain ali ho ther play o Euripides. It is strange to that Stobaeus, ii quote So copi-oust Do the ther play o Euripides, suem no toliave linown the rondes at all. The other MSS. Whicli contain tho Troades are tho Codices Harniensis C), mr-

ieiunus A), and Neapolitanus the last containing the Scholiu); ut thes eodices are nos valvabi sor critical

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purpuSes, a the may be trace bach to V o P orcodices closely resemblinione orither of theses theyare ali of coui se much later than V and , andabound in orthles conjectureS. Tho Christus sitiens, uini paschWor o phrases chiost froni the Bucchue, rosides, Hippolytus, and Rhesus, throws soni light on the text. I have again tolle through this extremel duli drama, ut Phaveno found it by an means s useful in the criticismo the Prosides a in the criticism of the Lueehile. have arefuli rea the Troacies of Seneca, and have recordod in the note sue parallel a seemed

On grammatical potnis Iaave reserrexto Madvig's Gree Syntur an Goodwin's Gree mod and enses. have contented myself,it a referone to iddelland coit, here it 00med that the Lerico gave susticient information. scit is possibi that myodition of tho Laeehu may b in the hand of somorea dors of this book I avo referred loci Dom timet time, to avoid a repetition os the fame noto. haVe talion aliis to preserve so sar a I could in translating the dignit of the original. Aio fhould notae encola rogod to thinii that tho Gree poets,erebald ani frigid. Translations of the Gree Tragio poets like hos of rofessor ob reali inspire alearner illi admiration for tho orks hic he is

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studying an admiration Whicli rapturous eulogies of the Gree masterpieces osten fuit to aWake. t theond of the volum Wil be found an Appendi on the metres of the lyrica paris of the play. The notes enclosed within square brachet wit thoinitials H. . appende are by r. Hasting Crossiey, Μ Α. o Dublin, and some time Professor o Gree in

Queen's College, Belsast. Other more Orcies recent commenta on the Troades have been drawn rom theclassica Reviere, Bursian's Jahresberichi, an occasionali stom monographs as for instance, that o Dr. J. Heingeh. I Will e suo thates have received Ome ver judiciolis an scholari commonis DOm r.

Stantey, formeri a distinguishod student of TrinityCollege, Dublin, a Scholar of tho Hous an Senior Moderator, o Vic0-Principat of tho CampbellCollego ea Belsast. I avo also, With r. Way's permission beautifie m editio by frequent quotations fro his scholari an artisti Euripides in

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Mετα την Ἱλίου πόρθησιν δοξεν Αθανα τε καὶ Ποσειδωνι το τῶν Ἀχαιῶν στράτευμα διαφθεῖραι του μὰν ευνοουντος τὶ πόλει δια την τι πιν τῆς δε μισησάσης τoi)ς Ελληνας δια την ιαντος ι Κασάνδραν βριν.o 'Ελληνες κληρωσάμενοι περι ων αιχμαλώτων γυναικων τας ἐν ἀξιώμασιν δωκαν 'Aγαμεμνον μὲν Κασάνδραν, Ανδρομάχην δε Νεοπτολεμ ω, Πολυξενηνδε τω Aχιλλει ταυτην μὲν ουν ἐπὶ γῆς του Αχ ιλλεως ταφης σφαξαν, Ἀστυάνακτα δὲ π των τειχῶν ἔρριψγαν 'Eλενην δε ς ἀποκτενῶν ενελεως γηγαγεν, Ἀγαμέμνων δε την χρησμωδυν νυμφαγώγησεν, 'Eκάβη δεταὶ μὲν Ελε,ης κατηγορήσασα, ο υς ἀναιρεθεντας δε

κατοδυραμενη και τον Ἀστυάνακτα κηδευσασα προ τας

δυσσεως χθη σκηνάς, τούτω λατρευειν δοθεῖσα. Aelianus V. H. 2 8. ατ την πρώτην και ἐνενηκοστην ὀλυμπιάδα, καθ' ην νικα Εξαι,ετο o 'Aκραγαντινος στάδιον ἀντηγωνίσαντο ἀλλήλοις ενοκλης και υριπίδης και πρωτός γε ν αενοκλης-οιδίποδι και Λυκάονι και Βάκχαις καὶ Ἀθάμαντι σατυρικω. τουτου δευτερος Eυριπίδης ν Αλεξάνδρω και IΠαλαμήδει καὶ Τρωάσι και Σισυφω σατυρικω. ei I A

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ΤΑ Ο ΔΡΑΜΑΤΟΣ ΠΡΟΣΩΠΑ.

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ΠΟΣΕΙΔΩΝ. LIκω λιπων Αἴγαιον ἁλμυρον βάθος πόντου Ιοσειδων, ἔνθα Νηρηδων χορο ικάλλιστον ἴχνος ἐξελίσσουσιν ποδός

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γαμεῖ βιαίως σκότιον Αγaμέμνων λεχος.aλλ', ω ποτ ευτυχουσα, χαῖρε μοι, πόλις, s στόν τε πύργωμ' εἴ σε μη διωλεσε Παλλὰς Ato παις, σθ' ci εν βάθροις ετι.