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Euripides and His Age, by Gilbert Murray, [1913], at sacred-texts.com
[Not including the Bibliography.]
Abdêra, 145
Achílles, 176 ff.
Actaêon, 64
Acts, book of, 20
Aêschylus, 11, 25, 67, 58, 66, 69, 118, 133, 180 ff., 184, 204, 232
Chöêphori, 153
Seven, 42
Suppliants, 118
Ágathon, 167
Ágôn (Contest), 63
Aîtion (mythical cause), 65
Alcibîades (ĭ in Greek), 109–115
Álcman, 103
Altar, in tragedy, 209 f.
Anaxágoras, 29, 50 f., 57, 114
Anaximánder, 62
Archelâüs (like "slay us"): (1) philosopher, 55; (2) King of Macedon, 167
Archer, W., 219
Architecture of plays, 207 ff., 213
Argos, 110
Birds, 141
Frogs, 25, 26, 112, 118, 170, 189, 190
Women at the Thesmophória, 25, 27
Áristotle, 9, 20, 127, 241, 243
Athens, after Persian War, 36 ff., 37–41, 43, 108; ideals of, 38–41, 107, 114; changes in, 105–113; and Euripides, 29–33, 89, 99, 119, 165 ff.; constitution of, 95 f.
Atmosphere of play, 208 f.
Augustine, 139
Biography, 20; of Euripides, 23
Browning, R., 9
Chárites (Graces), 103
Chervil, 26
Chorus, 81, 226–239; in dialogue, 235 f.
Clarity in style, 12
Classicism, 197
Clytemnéstra, 151–155, 173–178, 204
Coleridge, 202
Comedy. See Aristophanes, New Comedy
Convention in art, 201 ff.; as opposed to nature, 53 f.
Conversion, 138
Deus ex mâchinâ (appearance of a God from a stage machine), 63, 155 f., 158–162, 219–225. See Epiphany
Dickens, 35
Diógenes of Apollonia, 55
Dionysus, 64 f.; his ritual, 64 f.; festival, 67; in Bacchae, 186
Drama, Greek. See Tragedy mediaeval liturgical, 60, 64; Elizabethan, 59, 233
Elmsley, 9
"Enlightenment," 48, 94, 114. See Ideas
Ephêbi, 43
Epicûrus, 20
Epiphany, 63, 155 f. 158–162. See Deus ex Mâchinâ
Eurípides: birth, 22, 35; death, 170 f.; biography, 23 f.; portrait, 28; father, 35; mother, 26 f., 35; books, 28, 100; cave at Salamis, 28, 163; ideas, 8, 99; teachers, 50–58; as playwright, 7, 10, 85; mysticism, 8, 161; attitude to Religion, 188–192; influence after death, 10 ff.; relation to Athens, 30 f., 89, 96, 117 ff., 124, 164 ff.; and Comedy, 30; attitude to women, 28, 32 ff., 82 ff., 119–184; style, 13 f.; technique, 123, 196 ff.; battle pieces, 101
Euripides’ Ode on Alcibiades, 111; Epitaph on those slain in Sicily, 142
Aêgeus, 96
Aêolus, 77
Alcmaêon in Corinth, 171
Alcmaêon in Psophis, 70, 72 f.
Álope, 119
Andrómache (like "from a key"), 96, 110, 161, 208, 223
Antîope (ĭ in Greek), 237
Aûge, 118
Bacchae, 9, 19, 173, 179–188, 193 ff.
Children of Héracles, 98 f., 96, 208
Cretans, 78
Cŷclops, 60
Danaë, 118
Daughters of Pélias, 68 f., 79
Eléctra, 150–155, 193, 217 f., 223, 237
Eréchtheus, 96
Hécuba, 87–88, 141, 161, 185, 229
Hélena, 140, 144–146, 161, 190
Héracles, 97–103, 189, 195, 208, 232, 236
Hippólytus, 84–86, 161, 189 ff., 208, 210 f., 216–219, 223, 234, 235
Iphigenîa in Aulis, 171–179, 189
Iphigenîa in Tauris, 98, 140, 143–144, 161, 208, 227, 232, 236
Medêa, 32, 79–84, 87, 141, 161, 185, 190, 204, 227, 237–240
Oréstes, 155–160, 166, 189, 193, 227
Suppliant Women, 92–96, 109, 210, 234
Thêseus, 91
Trojan Women, 128–134, 136 ff., 191, 210, 234, 236
Forgiveness, doctrine of, 159–162
Frazer, J. G., 63
French Revolution, 116
Gellius, 25
Glover, 138
Gods, 189–190; on stage, 155 f. See Deus ex Mâchinâ
Graces, The, 103
Grenfell, 24
Haigh, 230
Hardy, T., 232
Hecataêus, 48
Helen, 159
Hellenism, 39
Héracles, Children of, 41. See under Euripides
Heraclîtus, 62
Heroes, 64 f.
Heródotus, 20, 39–42, 52 f., 105
Hêsiod, 47
Hippócrates, 21
Historical Spirit, 198 f.
Horace, 220
Hunt, 24
Hygiaînon, 165
Hypérbolus, 108 f.
Immortality, 35
Initiations, 35
Innocents, Massacre of, 64
Johnson, S., 209
Law, 39 ff.
Leicester, Earl of, 59
Lincoln, Abraham, 229
Macaulay, 9
Magnesia, 167
Mary Magdalen, 64
Masks, 74
Mégara, 44
Menánder. See New Comedy
Menelâüs ("slay us"), 110, 156 ff., 174 f., 204
Milêtus, Fall of, 65
Military Service, 43, 99 f., 102
Miltîades (ĭ in Greek), 43, 48
Mnesilochus, 29
Mysteries, 36
Nature, opposed to Convention, 52 f.
Nelson, Horatio, 229
Nefrekepta, 228
Nestlé, 8
"Nómos." See Convention
Norwood, G., 8
Old Age, 164
Old Year, 62 f.
Olympic Games, 111
Oréstes, 65, 151 ff. See under Euripides
Parian Marble, 22
Paris, Gaston, 60
Pasíphaë, 78
Patriotism, 96. See Plays, patriotic.
Paul, 139
Peloponnêsian War, 88, 91, 105–108
Péricles, 42, 51, 57, 89, 106 f.
Persians, 36
Philodêmus, 166
Phrynichus, 42
Phûsis (υ in Greek). See Nature
Plays. See under Authors: Euripides’, patriotic, 89 f., 96; early, 69–77; after 415, 140 ff.
Plûtarch, 111
Poets, ancient and modern, 99 f.
Porson, 9
Pródicus, 55
Promêtheus, 204. See Aeschylus
Pythágoras, 49
Realism, 19, 75, 172, 222; aversion from, 101 f.
Resurrection, 35, 63, 179, 188 f.
Rhyme, 201
Ridgeway, 63
Ritual in tragedy, 61–66, 172, 200; forms, 63, 179
Russell, B., 241
Salamis, 28, 37, 163; battle of, 22, 65
Sátyr-plays, 66 f.
Scott, W., 32
Shaw, G. B., 203
Sicilian Expedition, 128, 168, 191
Simônides, 142
Sincerity of Greek Tragedy, 201
Slavery, 135–136, 173–176, 121–123
Sóphia (Wisdom), 38, 49, 90, 107, 192
Sóphocles, 9, 11, 33, 170, 204
Ajax, 65
Oêdipus Tyránnus, 33, 214, 233
Philoctêtes, 74
Sparta, 37
Speeches in tragedy, 210
Steiger, 8
Stesíchorus, 145
"Súnesis ," 189
Superstition, 46 f., 114–117, 222, f.
Sympathy, shift of, 185 f.
Tácitus, 20
Tennyson, 100
Themístocles, 37, 40 ff., 48, 167
Theophany. See Deus ea Mâchinâ
Thêseus, 42, 93; sons of, 88; in Hippolytus, 84
Thesmophória. See Aristophanes
Thracians, 43
Thucydides, 105–108, 124–128, 168
Tolstoy, 166
Tradition, 14; of fifth century, 15; in tragedy, 61–66, 172, 181; in art, 17
Tragedy, origin, 63 f.; ritual in, see Ritual; essence, 242 f.; dress, etc., 73 f.; performances, 67; "most tragic," 10, 133, 243
Translations, 196 ff.
Trilogy, 66
Verisimilitude in art, 227, 231
Verrall, A. W., 8, 98, 157, 197
Victorian age, 16
Wars, Persian and Peloponnesian. See s.v.
Wells, H. G., 158
Whitman, W., 18
William the Silent, 34
"Wisdom," 38, 49, 90, 107, 192
Women in Athens, 32 f., 82, ff.; in Euripides, 83 ff., 119–124, 135
Year, Old and New, 66 ff.
Zeus, 204
Zeûxis, 168