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... believe in neither do not look on these dramas as meaningless and uninteresting , as having no real bearing on human life , merely because the tragic events are shown as directly caused , in part at least , by agencies whose existence ...
... believe in neither do not look on these dramas as meaningless and uninteresting , as having no real bearing on human life , merely because the tragic events are shown as directly caused , in part at least , by agencies whose existence ...
Page 38
... believe that the appearance of Iris and Lyssa , and the conversation between them , are nothing but a dream— or a waking hallucination - of the Chorus . I am con- strained to agree , therefore , that the symbolic interpreta- tion is ...
... believe that the appearance of Iris and Lyssa , and the conversation between them , are nothing but a dream— or a waking hallucination - of the Chorus . I am con- strained to agree , therefore , that the symbolic interpreta- tion is ...
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... believe , may fairly be said . Admittedly the picture is coherent ; the psychology is something less than a stark impossibility ; and if Heracles ' madness is to be taken as due to ' natural causes ' at all the causes must be these , or ...
... believe , may fairly be said . Admittedly the picture is coherent ; the psychology is something less than a stark impossibility ; and if Heracles ' madness is to be taken as due to ' natural causes ' at all the causes must be these , or ...
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accept actors actual Adrastus Aeschylus Alcestis Amphitryon ancient ancient Greece Aphrodite Argive Argos argued argument Artemis artistic Athenian Athens audience Bacchae believe cause chapter character Chorus clearly conventional critic deities Dionysus divine dramatis personae Euripides express fact fantasy feel fiction gods Greek tragedy Hera Heracles Hippolytus hostility human implies important impossible incredible instincts Iris and Lyssa least less Lycus lyric madness matter meaning Medea merely modern drama moral motive natural occurred Olympian opinion ordinary view orthodox passage passions Pentheus perhaps personages persons Phaedra play of Euripides plot poet's present purpose question rational rationalist readers realistic reason reject religion religious satire represent sacred history seems sequence six lines speak spectator stichomythia suggest supernatural Suppliants suppose sure symbolic interpretation symbolists tell Thebans Thebes theory Theseus thing thought tion tradition tragic poets Troades true truth Verrall Verrall's whole wholly words Zeus γὰρ δὲ καὶ