IonPrentice-Hall, 1970 - 157 pages |
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acropolis action adyton Aeschylus Aglaurids altar anapests ANTISTROPHE Apolline Apollo Appendix Athena Athenian Attica audience Bacchae basket birds birth blood called cave Cecrops child childless choral CHORUS classical CREUSA cult dancing daughter death Delphi Delphian Dionysus divine drama earth Erechtheid Erechtheus Erichthonius Eumenides Euripidean Euripides father fifth century fortune god's goddess gods golden Greek Heracles HERMES husband iambic trimeter Ion's Iphigeneia in Tauris kill king lines Loxias lyre lyric means metre metrical monody mortal mother motif Oedipus Oedipus the King Olympian omphalos oracle parodos Pausanias Pause Phoebus play plot poet Poseidon priestess prophecy prophetess purity PYTHIA queen ritual sacred sanctuary scene shrine sing slave snake song Sophocles speak speech stage Stasimon story STROPHE suppliant tale temple thing thought throne tion tragedy tragic tripod trochaic tetrameter tyche woman women words XUTHUS XUTHUS ION Zeus Zeus's