The Nineteen Tragedies and Fragments of Euripides, Vol. 1 of 3 (Classic Reprint)
Author | : Michael Wodhull Euripides |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 2015-07-04 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781330682661 |
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Excerpt from The Nineteen Tragedies and Fragments of Euripides, Vol. 1 of 3 Euripides was born in the island of Salamis, in the seventy-fifth Olympiad; his parents Mnesarchus and Clito having retired thither from Athens at the time that city was menaced by the powerful armament of Xerxes. Historians are by no means agreed as to the rank of our Poets Father and Mother: the proofs which some endeavour to adduce of their nobility do not appear by any means convincing; and if we admit the oracle of Apollo to have been consulted by them during the pregnancy of Clito, in regard to the fortunes of their future Child, as an attention to the voice of soothsayers is by no means peculiar to those of high birth or affluence, it might be too precipitate to conclude from thence, with Bayle, either that her station in life was superior to that of a 6 herb-woman, or that the distressed circumstances of her Husband were not among bis principal motives for changing the place of his abode. But whatever may have been the rank or occupation of Mnesarchus and Clito, they appear to have possessed the honourable title of free-born citizens of Athens. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.