Amymone, dear to Poseidon, when he has thrown the toils of slavery round them? Never, never, Artemi...
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Loxias had given Adrastus an oracle. JOCASTA What was it? what meanest thou? I cannot guess. POLY...
POLYNEICES O altars of my fathers' gods!- ETEOCLES Which thou art here to raze. POLYNEICES Hear...
No plan so good as to keep well guarded. ETEOCLES What if our cavalry make a sortie against the ho...
430 BC MEDEA by Euripides translated by E. P. Coleridge CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY NURSE OF MEDEA ...
rich banquet, set before them, afford to men delight. CHORUS I heard a bitter cry of lamentation! ...
Back to their source the holy rivers turn their tide. Order and the universe are being reversed. 'T...
in passion's venom dipped. antistrophe 1 On me may chastity, heaven's fairest gift, look with a fa...
shall he beget issue, for she must die a hideous death, slain by my drugs. Let no one deem me a poo...
Thy news is as it is; I blame thee not. ATTENDANT Then why this downcast eye, these floods of tear...
(MEDEA enters the house.) CHORUS (chanting) O earth, O sun whose beam illumines all, look, look up...
410 BC THE BACCHANTES by Euripides Characters in the Play Dionysus Cadmus Pentheus Agave Tei...
Bacchic wand; droll sight enough! Father, it grieves me to see you two old men so void of sense. Oh...
The reason being, they are far behind Hellenes in wisdom. DIONYSUS In this at least far in advance...
Thou daughter of that chief, whose powers Plough'd with a thousand keels the strand And ranged in ...