Describe my costume further. DIONYSUS Thou wilt wear a robe reaching to thy feet; and on thy head ...
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POLYNEICES O altars of my fathers' gods!- ETEOCLES Which thou art here to raze. POLYNEICES Hear...
Enter SECOND MESSENGER. SECOND MESSENGER O house, so prosperous once through Hellas long ago, home...
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 ...
410 BC THE BACCHANTES by Euripides Characters in the Play Dionysus Cadmus Pentheus Agave Tei...
rich banquet, set before them, afford to men delight. CHORUS I heard a bitter cry of lamentation! ...
Bacchic wand; droll sight enough! Father, it grieves me to see you two old men so void of sense. Oh...
Back to their source the holy rivers turn their tide. Order and the universe are being reversed. 'T...
The reason being, they are far behind Hellenes in wisdom. DIONYSUS In this at least far in advance...
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...
But will the monarch to these things assent? IPHIGENIA By me induced. Him I will see embark'd. OR...