THE ART OF EURIPIDES CONTINUED: THE CHORUS: CONCLUSION
And lastly there is the Chorus, at once the strangest and the most
beautiful of all these ancient and remote conventions. If we can
understand the Chorus we have got to the very heart of Greek tragedy.
The objections to the Chorus are plain to any infant. These dozen
homogeneous persons, old men or young women, eternally present and
almost never doing anything, intruded on action that often demands the
utmost privacy: their absurdity, on any plane of realism, is manifest.
We need waste no more words upon it. Verisimilitude is simply thrown to
the winds. That is, no doubt, a great sacrifice, and fine artists do not
as a rule incur a sacrifice without making sure of some compensating
gain. Let us try to find out what that gain was, or at least what the
great Greek artists were aiming at. And let us begin by forgetting the
modern stage altogether and thinking ourselves back to the very origins
of drama.
The word "chorus" means "dance" or "dancing-ground." There were such
dancing floors on Greek soil before ever the Greeks came there. They
have been found in prehistoric Crete and in the islands. We hear in
Homer of the "houses and dancing-grounds" of the Morning Star. The dance
was as old as mankind; only it was a kind of dance that we have almost
forgotten. The ancient dance was not, like our ballets, rooted in sexual
emotion. It was religious: it was a form of prayer. It consisted in the
use of the whole body, every limb and every muscle, to express somehow
that overflow of emotion for which a man has no words. And primitive man
had less command of words than we have. When the men were away on the
war-path, the women prayed for them with all their bodies. They danced
for the men's safe return. When the tribe's land was parching for lack
of rain the tribesmen danced for the rain to come. The dance did not
necessarily imply movement. It might consist in simply maintaining the
same rigid attitude, as when Moses held out his arms during the battle
with the Amalekites or Ahure in the Egyptian story waited kneeling and
fasting for Nefrekepta's return.
Now if we consider what kind of emotion will specially call for this
form of expression it is easy to see that it will be the sort that tends
quickly to get beyond words: religious emotions of all kinds, helpless
desire, ineffectual regret and all feelings about the past. When we
think of the kind of ritual from which tragedy emerged, the lament for a
dead god, we can see how well a dance was fitted, in primitive times, to
express the emotions that we call tragic.
This dance gradually grew into drama; how it did so is an old story.
Into the inarticulate mass of emotion and dumb show which is the Dance
there comes some more articulate element. There comes some one who
relates, or definitely enacts, the actual death or "pathos" of the hero,
while the Chorus goes on as before expressing emotion about it. This
emotion, it is easy to see, may be quite different from that felt by the
Hero. There is implied in the contemplation of any great deed this
ultimate emotion, which is not as a rule felt by the actual doers of it,
and is not, at its highest power, to be expressed by the ordinary
language of dialogue. The dramatist may make his characters express all
that they can properly feel; he may put into articulate dialogue all
that it will bear. But there still remains some residue which no one on
the stage can personally feel and which can only express itself as music
or yearning of the body. This residue finds its one instrument in the
Chorus.
Imagine the death of some modern hero, of Lincoln or of Nelson, treated
in the Greek form. We should have first a Messenger bringing news of the
battle of Trafalgar or the pistol-shot in the Washington Theatre. The
hero would be borne in dying; his friends would weep over him; we should
hear his last words. But there would always remain some essential
emotion or reflection--sadness, triumph, pathos, thoughts of the future
from which this man will be lacking or of the meaning of this death in
human history: neither Lincoln nor Nelson can express this, nor without
falsity any of their human companions. In a novel the author can express
it; in a modern play or a severely realistic novel it is generally not
expressed except by a significant silence or some symbol. For realistic
work demands extreme quickness in its audience, and can only make its
effect on imaginations already trained by romance and idealism. On the
Greek stage the Chorus will be there just for this purpose, to express
in music and movement this ultimate emotion and, as Mr. Haigh puts it,
to "shed a lyrical splendour over the whole." It will translate the
particular act into something universal. It will make a change in all
that it touches, increasing the elements of beauty and significance and
leaving out or reducing the element of crude pain. This is nothing
extraordinary: it is the normal business of poetry, at least of great
tragic poetry. An actual bereavement is an experience consisting of
almost nothing but crude pain; when it is translated into religion or
poetry, into "Rachel weeping for her children," or into "Break, break,
break," it has somehow become a thing of beauty and even of comfort.
The important thing to observe is what Mr. F. M. Cornford has explained
in his _Thucydides Mythistoricus_ (pp. 144 ff.), that a Greek tragedy
normally proceeds in two planes or two worlds. When the actors are on
the stage we are following the deeds and fates of so many particular
individuals, lovers, plotters, enemies, or whatever they are, at a
particular point of time and space. When the stage is empty and the
Choral Odes begin, we have no longer the particular acts and places and
persons but something universal and eternal. The body, as it were, is
gone and the essence remains. We have the greatness of love, the vanity
of revenge, the law of eternal retribution, or perhaps the eternal doubt
whether in any sense the world is governed by righteousness.
Thus the talk about improbability with which we started falls into its
proper insignificance. The Chorus in Euripides is frequently blamed by
modern scholars on the ground that "it does not further the action,"
that its presence is "improbable," or its odes "irrelevant." The answer
is that none of these things constitute the business of the Chorus; its
business is something considerably higher and more important.
Of action and relevancy we will speak later. They are both closely
connected with the question of verisimilitude. And as for
verisimilitude, we simply do not think of it. We are not imitating the
outside of life. We are expressing its soul, not depicting its body. And
if we did attempt verisimilitude we should find that in a Chorus it is
simply unattainable. In Nelson's case a Chorus of Sailors would be
every bit as improbable as a Chorus of Mermaids or Angels, and on the
whole rather more strikingly so. If we try to think of the most
effective Choruses in modern tragedies, I do not think we shall hit on
any bands of Strolling Players or Flower Girls or Church Choirs or other
Choruses that aim at "naturalness"; we shall probably go straight to the
Choruses of Spirits in _Prometheus Unbound_ or those of The Ages and The
Pities in Mr. Hardy's _Dynasts_. The Chorus belongs not to the plane of
ordinary experience, where people are real and act and make apposite
remarks, but to that higher world where in Mr. Cornford's words
"metaphor, as we call it, is the very stuff of life."
With very few exceptions, Greek Choruses are composed of beings who are
naturally the denizens or near neighbours of such a world. Sometimes
they are frankly supernatural, as in the _Eumenides_, or half
supernatural, as in the _Bacchae_; sometimes they are human beings seen
through the mist of a great emotion, like the weeping Rachels of the
_Suppliant Women_; the captives of the _Trojan Women_ or the
_Iphigenia_; the old men who dream dreams in the _Heracles_. Even if
they start as common men or women, sooner or later they become
transformed.
The problem of the Chorus to Euripides was not how to make it as little
objectionable as possible; it was how to get the greatest and highest
value out of it. And that resolves itself largely into the problem of
handling these two planes of action, using now the lower and now the
upper, now keeping them separate, now mingling them, and at times
letting one forcibly invade the other. I cannot here go into details of
the various effects obtained from the Chorus by Euripides; but I will
take a few typical ones, selecting in each case scenes that have been
loudly condemned by critics.
The first and most normal effect is to use the Chorus for "relief"; to
bring in, as it were, the ideal world to heal the wounds of the real. It
is not, of course, "comic relief," as indulged in so freely by the
Elizabethans. It is a transition from horror or pain to mere beauty or
music, with hardly any change of tension. I mean, that if the pain has
brought tears to your eyes, the beauty will be such as to keep them
there, while of course changing their character. It is this use of
lyrics that enables the Greek playwright to treat freely scenes of
horror and yet never lose the prevailing atmosphere of high beauty. Look
at the Salamis Chorus in the _Trojan Women_ immediately following the
child's death; the lyrics between Oedipus and the Chorus when he has
just entered with his bleeding eyes; or, in particular, the song sung by
the Chorus in _Hippolytus_ just after Phaedra has rushed off to kill
herself. We have had a scene of high tension and almost intolerable
pain, and the Chorus, left alone, make certainly no relevant remarks. I
can think of no relevant remark that would not be an absurd bathos. They
simply break out (732 ff.):
Could I take me to some cavern for mine hiding,
In the hill-tops, where the sun scarce hath trod,
Or a cloud make the home of mine abiding,
As a bird among the bird-droves of God. . . .
It is just the emotion that was in our own hearts; the cry for escape to
some place, however sad, that is still beautiful: to the poplar grove by
the Adriatic where his sisters weep for Phaethon; or, at last, as the
song continues and grows bolder, to some place that has happiness as
well as beauty; to that "strand of the Daughters of the Sunset,"
Where a sound of living waters never ceaseth
In God's quiet garden by the sea,
And Earth, the ancient Life-giver, increaseth
Joy among the meadows, like a tree.
And the wish for escape brings an actual escape, on some wind of beauty,
as it were, from the Chorus's own world. This is, on the whole, the most
normal use of the Choric odes, though occasionally they may also be used
for helping on the action. For instance, in the ode immediately
following that just quoted the Chorus gives a sort of prophetic or
clairvoyant description of Phaedra's suicide.
* * * * *
But the Greek Chorus does not only sing its great odes on an empty
stage; it also carries on, by the mouth of its Leader, a certain amount
of ordinary dialogue with the actors. Its work here is generally kept
unobtrusive, neutral and low-toned. When a traveller wants to ask his
way; when the hero or heroine announces some resolve, or gives some
direction, the Leader is there to make the necessary response. But only
within certain carefully guarded limits. The Leader must never become a
definite full-blooded character with strongly personal views. He must
never take really effective or violent action. He never, I think, gives
information which we do not already possess or expresses views which
could seem paradoxical or original. He is an echo, a sort of music in
the air. This comes out clearly in another fine scene of the
_Hippolytus_, where Phaedra is listening at the door and the Leader of
the Chorus listens with her, echoing and making more vibrant Phaedra's
own emotion (565-600).
At times, in these dialogue scenes, an effect is obtained by allowing
the Chorus to turn for a moment into ordinary flesh and blood. In the
_Iphigenia in Tauris_ (1055 ff.) the safe escape of Iphigenia and
Orestes depends on the secrecy of the Chorus of Greek captives.
Iphigenia implores them to be silent, and, after a moment of hesitation,
because of the danger, they consent. Iphigenia, with one word of radiant
gratitude, forgets all about them and leaves the stage to arrange things
with her brother. And the captives left alone watch a sea-bird winging
its way towards Argos, whither Iphigenia is now going and they shall
never go, and break into a beautiful home-sick song. Similarly in the
splendid finale of Aeschylus' _Prometheus_ the Daughters of Ocean, who
have been mostly on the unearthly plane throughout the play, are
suddenly warned to stand aside and leave Prometheus before his doom
falls: in a rush of human passion they refuse to desert him and are
hurled with him into Hell.
At other times the effect is reached by emphasizing just the other side,
the unearthliness of the Chorus. In the _Heracles_, for instance, when
the tyrant Lycus is about to make some suppliants leave the protection
of an altar by burning them--a kind of atrocity which just avoided the
technical religious offence of violating sanctuary--the Chorus of old
men tries for a moment to raise its hand against the tyrant's soldiers.
It is like the figures of a dream trying to fight--"words and a
hidden-featured thing seen in a dream of the night," as the poet himself
says, trying to battle against flesh and blood; a helpless visionary
transient struggle which is beautiful for a moment but would be
grotesque if it lasted. Again, in the lost _Antiope_ there is a scene
where the tyrant is inveigled into a hut by murderers; he manages to
dash out and appeals to the Chorus of old men for help. But they are not
really old men; they are only ancient echoes or voices of Justice, who
speak his doom upon him, standing moveless while the slayers come.
These examples enable us to understand a still stronger effect of the
same kind which occurs in the _Medea_ and has, until very lately, been
utterly condemned and misunderstood. It is an effect rather reminding
one of the Greek fable of a human wrong so terrible that it shook the
very Sun out of his course. It is like the human cry in the _Electra_
(p. 157), which shook the eternal peace of the gods in heaven. There is
something delirious about it, an impossible invasion of the higher world
by the lower, a shattering of unapproachable bars.
Medea has gone to murder her children inside the house. The Chorus is
left chanting its own, and our, anguish outside. "Why do they not rush
in and save the children?" asked the critics. In the first place,
because that is not the kind of action that a Chorus can ever perform.
That needs flesh and blood. "Well," the critic continues, "if they
cannot act effectively, why does Euripides put them in a position in
which we instinctively clamour for effective action and they are absurd
if they do not act?" The answer to that is given in the play itself.
They do not rush in; there is no question of their rushing in: because
the door is barred. When Jason in the next scene tries to enter the
house he has to use soldiers with crowbars. The only action they can
possibly perform is the sort that specially belongs to the Chorus, the
action of baffled desire.
Medea is in the house; the Chorus is chanting its sublimated impersonal
emotion about the Love that has turned to Hate in Medea, and its dread
of things to come (1267 ff.):
For fierce are the smitings back of blood once shed
Where Love hath been: God's wrath upon them that kill,
And an anguished Earth, and the wonder of the dead
Haunting as music still. . . .
when a sudden cry is heard within. The song breaks short, and one woman
speaks:
Hark! Did ye hear? Heard ye the children's cry?
_Another._
O miserable woman! O abhorred!
_Voice of a Child within._
What shall I do? What is it? Keep me fast
From Mother!
_The Other Child._
I know nothing. Brother! Oh,
I think she means to kill us.
_One of the Chorus._
Let me go!
I will!--Help, help! And save them at the last!
_Child._
Yes, in God's name. Help quickly or we die!
_The Other Child._
She has almost caught me now: she has a sword.
One sees the Women of the Chorus listening for the Children's words;
then they break, as it were, from the spell of their own super-mortal
atmosphere, and fling themselves on the barred door. They beat in vain
against the bars and the Children's voices cry for help from the other
side.
But the inrush of violent horror is only tolerated for a moment. Even in
the next words we are moving back to the realm of formal poetry:
_Women Beating at the Door._
Thou stone, thou thing of iron! Wilt verily
Spill with thine hand that life, the vintage stored
Of thine own agony?
_Others_
A woman slew her babes in days of yore,
One, only one, from dawn to eventide. . . .
and in a moment we are away in a beautiful remote song about far-off
children who have been slain in legend. That death-cry is no longer a
shriek heard in the next room. It is the echo of many cries of children
from the beginning of the world, children who are now at peace and whose
ancient pain has become part mystery and part music. Memory--that Memory
who was mother of the Muses--has done her work upon it.
We see here the justification of the high formalism and convention of
Greek tragedy. It can touch without flinching any horror of tragic life,
without failing in sincerity and without marring its normal atmosphere
of beauty. It brings things under the great magic of something which is
hard to name, but which I have tried in these pages to indicate;
something that we can think of as eternity or the universal or perhaps
even as Memory. For Memory, used in this way, has a magical power. As
Mr. Bertrand Russell has finely put it in one of his _Essays_, "The Past
does not change or strive. Like Duncan in _Macbeth_ 'After life's fitful
fever it sleeps well.' What was eager and grasping, what was petty and
transitory, has faded away. The things that were beautiful and eternal
shine out like stars in the night."
This power of transfiguration belongs in varying degrees to all poetry,
but it belongs in special force to Greek Tragedy; and Greek Tragedy
attains it in part by all its high religious traditions and severities
of form, but most fully by means of its strangest convention, the
Chorus; the band of half-embodied emotions and memories, the lyric song
and the dance expressing things beyond speech. It is through this power
that tragedy attain its peculiar quality of encouragement and triumph.
We must not forget that Aristotle, a judge whose dicta should seldom be
dismissed without careful reflection, distinguishes tragedy from other
forms of drama not as the form that represents human misery but as that
which represents human goodness or nobleness. If his MSS. are to be
trusted he even goes so far as to say that tragedy is "the
representation of Eudaimonia," or the higher kind of happiness. Of
course he fully recognizes the place of death and disaster in it, and he
prefers the so-called "unhappy ending." The powers of evil and horror
must be granted their full scope; it is only thus that we can triumph
over them. Only when they have worked their uttermost will do we realize
that there remains something in man's soul which is forever beyond their
grasp and has power in its own right to make life beautiful. That is the
great revelation, or the great illusion, of tragedy.
It is achieved, apparently, by a combination of two extremes; in matter
a full facing of tragic facts, and in form a resolute transfiguration of
them by poetry. The weak artist shirks the truth by a feeble idealism;
the prosaic artist fails to transfigure it. Euripides seems to me to
have gone further than any other writer in the attempt to combine in one
unity these separate poles. In this lies, for good or evil, his unique
quality as a poet. To many readers it seems that his powers failed him;
his mixture of real life and supernatural atmosphere, of wakeful thought
and dreaming legend, remains a discord, a mere jar of overwrought
conventions and violent realism. To others it is because of this very
quality that he has earned the tremendous rank accorded him by Goethe,
and in a more limited sense by Aristotle, and still stands out, as he
stood over two thousand years ago, "even if faulty in various ways, at
any rate clearly the most tragic of the poets."
BIBLIOGRAPHY
TEXTS.--Murray, 3 vols., 3s. 6d. each (Oxford, 1901-1913), with
brief critical notes. This edition received much help from
Wilamowitz and Verrall. _Wecklein-Prinz_ (Leipzig, about 1895 to
1905), edited by Dr. Wecklein from Prinz's collations of MSS.;
large critical apparatus and lists of emendations. Text much
altered.
FRAGMENTS.--_Fragmenta Tragicorum Graecorum_ by Nauck (Leipzig,
second edition, 1889): this fine book still holds the field (26s.).
_Supplementum Euripideum_ by H. von Arnim (Bonn, 1912). (Price 2s.)
Contains the recent papyrus discoveries; a convenient and learned
little book, defaced by metrical errors.
TEXTS WITH COMMENTARY.--Paley, 3 vols., 8s. each (Cambridge, second
edition, 1880). Though old-fashioned and often based on wrong
information about the MSS. and other matters this is a most sound
and thoughtful work. Of the numerous modern editions (especially
school editions) of particular plays we may mention _Euripides'
Herakles_ erklaert von Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (first
edition, Berlin, 1889); since re-edited in two volumes. This is an
epoch-making book, and together with the same author's _Analecta
Euripidea_ (1875) has laid the foundation for modern criticism:
also Verrall's Medea, Sandys' Bacchae, Keene's Electra, Powell's
Phoenissae. In French, Weil's _Sept Tragedies d'Euripide_; in
German Bruhn's editions of the Iphigenia in Tauris and the Bacchae
deserve special note.
TRANSLATIONS.--There are complete translations of the extant plays
in prose by Coleridge (Bohn) and in verse by A. Way (Macmillan). A
good prose translation, which should really bring out the full
meaning of the Greek, is greatly needed. By Murray there are at
present translations of the following plays: Hippolytus, Bacchae,
Trojan Women, Electra, Medea, Iphigenia in Tauris, Rhesus. In paper
1s. each, in cloth 2s. (George Allen).
ESSAYS, ETC.--The best starting point is Haigh's _Tragic Drama of
the Greeks_ (Oxford, 1896), pp. 204-321; Introduction to vol. i. of
Paley's Commentary (see above); Articles in the Histories of Greek
Literature by Mahaffy, Jebb (both Primer and article in
Encyclopaedia Britannica), Jevons, Murray. In French, the article in
Croiset's _History of Literature_; P. Decharme, _Euripide et
l'esprit de son Theatre_ (Paris, 1893); P. Masqueray, _Euripide et
ses Idees_ (Paris, 1908). In German, the "Einleitung" to
Wilamowitz's _Herakles_, vol. i. (Berlin, 1889); Dieterich's
article on Euripides in Pauly-Wissowa's _Real Encyclopaedie_ is
excellent, though severely compressed and ignorant of English work;
articles in the Histories of Literature by Bergk (still valuable),
Christ (in Ivan Mueller's Handbuch), Bethe (in Gercke und Norden's
Handbuch), Wilamowitz (in _Kultur der Gegenwart_); the account in
Eduard Meyer's _Geschichte des Alterthums_, vol. iv., is good. Also
Ed. Schwartz, _Charakterkoepfe aus der Antiken Literatur_ (Leipzig,
1906), second study, very good: H. Steiger, _Euripides, seine
Dichtung und seine Persoenlichkeit_ (Leipzig, 1912). Useful, though
often uncritical, is W. Nestle _Euripides, der Dichter der
Griechischen Aufklaerung_ (Stuttgart, 1901); also _Die
Philosophische Quellen des Euripides_ (Leipzig, 1902). The ideas of
"the Enlightenment," to which reference is often made, can be well
studied in Mr. Brailsford's book in this Library, _Shelley, Godwin,
and Their Circle_.
Dr. A. W. Verrall's theory of Euripides is developed in _Euripides the
Rationalist_ (Cambridge, 1905); _Euripides' Ion_ (1890); _Four Plays of
Euripides_ (1905); _The Bacchantes of Euripides_ (1910). See also G.
Norwood, _The Riddle of the Bacchae_ (London, 1908).
Murray's previous writings include the chapter in his _Ancient Greek
Literature_ (1898); introduction to vol. ii. of _The Athenian Drama_
(George Allen, 1902). (This volume is called "Euripides" and contains,
besides the translations of the Hippolytus, Bacchae and Frogs, since
republished separately, an Introduction and an Appendix on the lost
plays of Euripides). Introductions to his translations of separate
plays: see above; _Greek and English Tragedy_, an essay in English
Literature and the Classics, edited by G. S. Gordon (Oxford, 1912); and
the article on Euripides in Hastings' _Encyclopaedia of Ethics and
Religion_. (These writings have been sometimes quoted in the present
volume.)
The Lives can best be read in the edition of the _Scholia_ by Ed.
Schwartz (Berlin, 1887). To this must now be added the fragments of
Satyrus in _Oxyrhyncus Papyri_, vol. ix. (also contained, though without
Dr. Hunt's introduction, in Arnim's _Supplementum Euripideum_; see
above). The ancient references to the facts of Euripides' life are
admirably collected in vol. i. of Nauck's small text of _Euripides_. See
also Wilamowitz's _Herakles_, pp. 1-40.
CHRONOLOGY OF THE PLAYS.--Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, _Analecta
Euripidea_ (Berlin, 1875). Grace Macurdy, _The Chronology of the
extant Plays of Euripides_ (Columbia University, 1905).
LOST PLAYS.--Fragments in Nauck; see above. No complete
translation. A good many of the lost plays are treated and
fragments translated in the Appendix to Murray's _Euripides,
Athenian Drama_, vol. ii.; see above. The classical work on this
subject is still Welcker's _Griechische Tragoedie_, a great book: 3
vols. (Leipzig, 1839-41.) Hartung's _Euripides Restitutus_, 2 vols.
(Hamburg, 1844), is uncritical and somewhat prejudiced against
Welcker, but has much charm.
ANTIQUITIES, ETC.--The standard book is Haigh's _Attic Theatre_,
3rd edition, by A. W. Pickard-Cambridge (Oxford, 1907). See also
_Greek Tragedy_ by J. T. Sheppard (Cambridge Manuals) and _Greek
Drama_ by Barnet in Dent's Series.
PRONUNCIATION OF GREEK NAMES
Greek names have mostly come to the modern world through Latin and
consequently are generally given in their Latin form. Thus in Latin the
K-sound was denoted by C; KH by CH, AI- by AE; OU- by U; U by Y, which
is really a Greek letter taken over into Latin for this express purpose.
Also one or two common terminations are given in their Latin form,
Homeros becoming Homerus, Apollon Apollo, and Alexandros Alexander. This
difference in writing did not mean a difference in pronunciation; the
Latin _Aeschylus_ was pronounced (except perhaps in the termination)
exactly like the Greek "_Aiskhulos_," _Thucydides_ like "_Thoukudides_."
The conventional English pronunciation follows the Latin form and
pronounces all vowels and diphthongs as in English, except that E is
always pronounced, and never used merely to lengthen a previous vowel:
e.g., "Euripides" rhymes with "insipid ease," not with "glides,"
"Hermione" roughly with "bryony," not with "tone." OE and AE are
pronounced as one syllable, like "ee" in "free," except when marked as
two syllables, as "Arsinoe." EU as in "feud." Of the consonants C is
pronounced as in English, CH as K. The only difficulty then is to know
where the stress comes and what vowels are long or short.
By Latin custom, if the last syllable but one is long, it will have the
stress (as _surprising_, _everlasting_, _Achilles_, _Agamemnon_); if the
last syllable but one is short, the stress will be on the syllable
before (as _adamant_, _dangerous_, _Aeschylus_, _Thucydides_).
In the following index ' denotes a stressed short vowel sound, as in
_cattle_, _imbedded_, _pitiful_, _biology_: ^ denotes a stressed long
vowel as in _cake_, _creeper_, _spiteful_, _October_, _endurable_,
_g[^y]roscope_. In the case of the letter "y", this length has been
indicated by [^y].
INDEX
[_Not including the Bibliography._]
Abdera, 144
Achilles, 177 _ff._
Acts, book of, 21
Actaeon, 66
Aeschylus, 11, 25, 58, 59, 67, 70, 121, 135, 182 _ff._, 186, 206, 234
_Agamemnon_, 153, 207
_Choephori_, 153
_Eumenides_, 183, 234
_Lycurgeia_, 66, 182 _f._, 186
_Persae_, 43, 104
_Prometheus_, 66, 206, 238
_Seven_, 43
_Suppliants_, 121
Agamemnon, 133, 175-179, 206
Agathon, 170
_Agon_ (Contest), 64
_Aition_ (mythical cause), 66
Alcibiades (iota with vrachy in Greek), 110-114
Alcman, 106
Altar, in tragedy, 210 _f._
Anaxagoras, 30, 51 _f._, 58, 116
Anaximander, 63
Apollo, 36, 121-126
Archelaus (like "slay us"):
(1) philosopher, 56;
(2) King of Macedon, 169
Archer, W., 221
Architecture of plays, 209 _ff._, 215
_Arete_ (virtue), 38, 41, 50
Argos, 112
Aristides, 43, 47, 49
Aristophanes, 25, 30 _f._, 74
_Acharnians_, 26, 77
_Birds_, 143
_Frogs_, 25, 26, 114, 120, 172, 191, 192
_Knights_, 27, 46, 112
_Women at the Thesmophoria_, 25, 27
Aristotle, 10, 20, 129, 244, 245
Athena, 42, 131
Athens, after Persian War, 37 _ff._, 39-42, 45, 110;
ideals of, 39-42, 109, 115;
changes in, 107-115;
and Euripides, 30-34, 89, 99, 119, 166 _ff._;
constitution of, 97 _f._
Atmosphere of play, 210 _f._
Augustine, 141
Biography, 21;
of Euripides, 23
Blood-feud, 152, 153
Browning, R., 9
Cephisophon, 29, 167
Charites (Graces), 105
Chervil, 26
Chorus, 83, 228-242;
in dialogue, 237 _f._
Clarity in style, 13
Classicism, 199
Cleon, 58, 109 _f._, 118
Clytemnestra, 152-157, 175-180, 206
Coleridge, 204
Comedy. _See_ Aristophanes, New Comedy
Convention in art, 201 _ff._;
as opposed to nature, 53 _f._
Conversion, 141
Cornford, F. M., 64, 232, 234
Dance, 62, 229 _f._
Demokedes, 49, 194 _f._
Democracy, 38 _ff._, 116
_Deus ex machina_ (appearance of a God from a stage machine), 64, 156 _f._,
160-164, 221-227.
_See_ Epiphany
Dickens, 33
Diogenes of Apollonia, 56
Dion[^y]sus, 64 _f._;
his ritual, 64 _f._;
festival, 68;
in Bacchae, 188
Drama, Greek. _See_ Tragedy
mediaeval liturgical, 62, 65;
Elizabethan, 60, 235
Elizabethans, 60, 235
Elmsley, 9
Empire, Athenian, 108-110
"Enlightenment," 48, 96, 116.
_See_ Ideas
Ephebi, 43
Epicurus, 20
Epiphany, 64, 156 _f._, 160-164.
_See Deus ex Machina_
Euripides: birth, 22, 35;
death, 171 _f._;
biography, 23 _ff._;
portrait, 28;
father, 35;
mother, 26 _f._, 35;
books, 28, 103;
cave at Salamis, 29, 165;
ideas, 7, 99;
teachers, 50-59;
as playwright, 7, 10, 85;
mysticism, 8, 163;
attitude to Religion, 190-194;
influence after death, 10 _ff._;
relation to Athens, 30 _f._, 89, 99, 119 _ff._, 126,
166 _ff._;
and Comedy, 30;
attitude to women, 28, 32 _ff._, 84 _ff._, 121-126;
style, 13 _f._;
technique, 125, 198 _ff._;
battle pieces, 104
Euripides' Ode on Alcibiades, 113
Epitaph on those slain in Sicily, 144
_Aegeus_, 98
_Aeolus_, 78
_Alcestis_, 70, 72 _f._, 88
_Alcmaeon_ in Corinth, 173
_Alcmaeon_ in Psophis, 71, 73 _f._
_Alexander_, 137-139
_Alope_, 121
_Andromache_ (like "from a key"), 98, 112, 163, 210, 224
_Andromeda_, 143-145
_Antiope_ (iota with vrachy in Greek), 239
_Auge_, 121
_Bacchae_, 9, 19, 173, 181-190, 195 _ff._
_Bellerophontes_, 101, 190
_Children of Heracles_, 93 _f._, 98, 210
_Cretans_, 79
_Cretan Women_, 71, 77
_C[^y]clops_, 70
_Danae_, 121
_Daughters of Pelias_, 69 _f._, 81
_Electra_, 138, 152-157, 195, 219 _f._, 224, 240
_Erechtheus_, 98
_Hecuba_, 89-90, 143, 163, 187, 229
_Helena_, 142, 146-148, 163, 192
_Heracles_, 99-105, 191, 197, 210, 234, 239
_Hippolytus_, 85-88, 163, 191 _ff._, 210, 213 _f._,
217-219, 224, 236, 238
_Ion_, 79, 119-126, 192, 199
_Iphigenia in Aulis_, 173-181, 191
_Iphigenia in Tauris_, 101, 142, 145-146, 163, 210, 229, 234, 238
_Medea_, 32, 81-86, 90, 143, 163, 187, 192, 206, 229, 240-242
_Melanippe_, 27, 121
_Orestes_, 158-163, 168, 191, 195, 229
_Palamedes_, 137, 139 _f._
_Phoenissae_, 148-152, 163
_Rhesus_, 44, 71, 224
_Suppliant Women_, 94-98, 111, 210, 234
_Telephus_, 72, 74 _ff._
_Theseus_, 92
_Trojan Women_, 130-137, 140 _ff._, 191, 210, 234, 236.
Forgiveness, doctrine of, 162-164
Frazer, J. G., 64
Freedom of Thought, 58, 96
French Revolution, 118
Gellius, 25
Glover, 141
Gods, 191-192;
on stage, 156 _f._
_See Deus ex Machina_
Goethe, 10, 245
Graces, The, 105
Grenfell, 24
Haigh, 232
Hardy, T., 234
Harrison, J. E., 64, 222
Hecataeus, 49
Helen, 162
Hellenism, 39
Heracles, Children of, 41.
_See under_ Euripides
Heraclitus, 63
Herd, The, 193 _f._, 196
Heroes, 65 _f._
Herodotus, 20, 39-42, 53 _f._, 107
Hesiod, 47
Hippocrates, 21
Historical Spirit, 199 _f._
Homer, 36, 131, 229
Horace, 222
_Hubris_, 63, 128
Hunt, 24
Hygiainon, 167
Hyperbolus, 110 _f._
Ibsen, 9, 33, 206
Ideas, 45 _f._, 116
Immortality, 36
Initiations, 36
Innocents, Massacre of, 65
Ionia, 45 _ff._, 49, 51
Jason, 82-85, 206
Johnson, S., 211
Law, 39 _ff._
Leicester, Earl of, 60
Lincoln, Abraham, 231
Macaulay, 9
Macedonia, 169-173
Magnesia, 169
Mary Magdalen, 65
Masks, 75
Mediaeval Drama, 62, 65
Megara, 44
Melian Dialogue, 127-130
Melos, 127-132, 194
Memory, 106 _f._, 242
Menander. _See_ New Comedy
Menelaus ("slay us"), 113, 158 _ff._, 176 _f._, 206
Meredith, G., 103, 203
Messenger, 214-220
Miletus, Fall of, 66
Military Service, 43, 101 _f._, 105
Miltiades (iota with vrachy in Greek), 43, 49
Milton, 9, 208
Mnesilochus, 29
Muses, 34, 105
Mysteries, 36
Mystery Plays, 62, 65, 185
Mysticism, 8, 163
Nature, opposed to Convention, 53 _f._
Nelson, Horatio, 231
Neirekepta, 230
Nestle, 8
New Comedy, 173 _f._, 201 _f._
"_Nomos._" _See_ Convention
Norwood, G., 8
Old Age, 166
Old Year, 63 _f._
Olympic Games, 113
Orestes, 66, 153 _ff._
_See under_ Euripides
Parian Marble, 22
Paris, Gaston, 61
Pasiphae, 79
Patriotism, 98.
_See_ Plays, patriotic
Paul, 141
Peasants, Greek, 46 _f._, 117
Peloponnesian War, 91, 94, 107-110
Pentheus, 66, 181 _ff._
Pericles, 43, 52, 58, 91, 108 _f._
Persians, 37
Persian War, 37, 48
Phaedra, 86-88, 213 _f._
Philochorus, 24 _ff._, 27
Philodemus, 168
Phl[^y]a, 35 _f._, 46
Phr[^y]nichus, 42
_Phusis_ (upsilon with vrachy in Greek).
_See_ Nature
Pindar, 48, 121, 140
Plato, 15, 29, 32, 50, 140
Plays. _See under_ Authors:
Euripides', patriotic, 91 _f._, 98;
early, 70-73;
after 415, 142 _ff._
Plutarch, 113
Poets, ancient and modern, 102 _f._
Polygnotus, 42, 44
Porson, 9
Preparation, 216-221
Prodicus, 56
Prologues, 207-212
Prometheus, 206.
_See_ Aeschylus
Protagoras, 30, 54-56
Pythagoras, 49
Realism, 19, 76, 174, 224;
aversion from, 103 _f._
Religion, 190-194
Resurrection, 35, 64, 181, 190 _f._
Rhyme, 203
Ridgeway, 65
Ritual in tragedy, 62-67, 174, 202;
forms, 64, 181
Romance, 73 _f._, 142-146, 205
Russell, B., 243
Salamis, 29, 37, 165;
battle of, 22, 66
Satyrus, 23 _ff._, 31
Satyr-plays, 67 _f._
Scott, W., 33
Sex questions, 78 _f._, 121
Shakespeare, 60, 208 _f._, 243
Shaw, G. B., 206
Shelley, 9, 18, 95, 234
Sicilian Expedition, 130, 170, 194
Sicily, 130, 170
Simonides, 144
Sincerity of Greek Tragedy, 204
Slavery, 137-139, 175-178, 123-125
Socrates, 29, 56
Sophists, 45 _f._, 50-59, 116
_Sophia_ (Wisdom), 38, 50, 92, 109, 194
Sophocles, 9, 11, 34, 172, 206
Ajax, 66
Antigone, 34, 70, 206
Electra, 153, 156, 207
Oedipus Tyrannus, 34, 216, 236
Philoctetes, 76
Sparta, 38
Speeches in tragedy, 212
Steiger, 9
Stesichorus, 147
"_Sunesis_," 191
Superstition, 43 _f._, 116-119, 224 _f._
Swinburne, 18, 185, 203
Sympathy, shift of, 187 _f._
Tacitus, 21
Tennyson, 103
Thebes, 42, 149
Themistocles, 37, 41 _ff._, 49, 169
Theophany. _See Deus ex Machina_
Theseus, 43, 95;
sons of, 89;
in Hippolytus, 87
Thesmophoria. _See_ Aristophanes
Thracians, 44
Thucydides, 107-110, 127-130, 170
Timotheus, 30, 170
Tolstoy, 168
Tradition, 14;
of fifth century, 15;
in tragedy, 62-67, 174, 183;
in art, 17
Tragedy, origin, 64 _f._;
ritual in, _see_ Ritual;
essence, 244 _f._;
dress, etc., 75 _f._;
performances, 68;
"most tragic," 10, 135, 245
Translations, 198 _ff._
Trilogy, 67
Vegetation-spirit, 35, 62 _ff._
Verisimilitude in art, 229, 233
Verrall, A. W., 8, 101, 159, 199
Victorian age, 16
"Virtue," 38, 41, 50
War Party, 31, 114, 143, 166
Wars, Persian and Peloponnesian. _See s.v._
Wells, H. G., 160
Whitman, W., 18
Wilamowitz, 141, 199
William the Silent, 35
"Wisdom," 38, 50, 92, 109, 194
Women in Athens, 32 _f._, 84 _ff._;
in Euripides, 84 _ff._, 121-126, 137
Xuthus, 121-126
Year, Old and New, 62 _ff._
Zeus, 206
Zeuxis, 170
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Transcriber's note:
The following changes were made to the original text:
Page 162: Gesperrt emphasis changed to italics. "_Her_." for "H e r."
Page 190: "is" inserted. "but it is also a spirit of search"
Page 248: Nestle changed to Nestle.
Minor punctuation errors were corrected.