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Dramatic Poets, with Commentaries and
Explanatory Notes.
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AESCHYLUS: The Orestean Trilogy. By Prof. G. C. Warr. With anIntroduction on The Rise of Greek Tragedy, and 13 Illustrations.
SOPHOCLES: Œdipus Tyrannus and Coloneus, and Antigone. By Prof. J.S. Phillimore. With an Introduction on Sophocles and his Treatment ofTragedy, and 16 Illustrations.
EURIPIDES: Hippolytus; Bacchae; Aristophanes' 'Frogs.' By Prof.Gilbert Murray. With an Appendix on The Lost Tragedies of Euripides,and an Introduction on The Significance of the Bacchae in AthenianHistory, and 12 Illustrations. [Second Edition.
ALSO UNIFORM WITH THE ABOVE
THE HOMERIC HYMNS. A New Prose Rendering by Andrew Lang, with EssaysCritical and Explanatory, and 14 Illustrations.
THE PLAYS OF EURIPIDES
Translated into English Rhyming Verse, with Explanatory Notes, by Prof.Gilbert Murray. Crown 8vo, cloth, 2s. each net.
The Trojan Women.
Electra.[In the Press.
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EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF GREEK IN THE UNIVERSITY
OF GLASGOW; SOMETIME FELLOW OF
NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD
Judged by common standards, the Troädes is far from a perfect play; itis scarcely even a good play. It is an intense study of one greatsituation, with little plot, little construction, little or no relief orvariety. The only movement of the drama is a gradual exti