Measuring Euripides
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We should remember therefore that he wrote his tragedies during the last half or third of the fifth century before our era.
He wrote as the age of Pericles was closing, while Socrates and the sophists were teaching in the streets of Athens, and during the bitter trials and experiences of the Peloponnesian War.
Among the chief influences to which he must have been subject were : first, the litera£yjtraditions_frani^^ on, and especially those of the earlier tragedians. Here would be a danger, tha...t he might copy the past instead of conforming his contents to the present. Second, he was bound by the religious teaching of the past, by the holy atmosphere of the festivals at wfiich his plays were produced, and by the old stories or myths which he had to use as plots, just as preachers today have to take their texts from the Bible. Third, he lived in a Greek city state and had been brought up under its peculiar political, social, and intellectual conditions. Fourth, he could not but have felt the effects of the disastrous Peloponnesian war, which marked the e nd of Ath er^' political .
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
We should remember therefore that he wrote his tragedies during the last half or third of the fifth century before our era.
He wrote as the age of Pericles was closing, while Socrates and the sophists were teaching in the streets of Athens, and during the bitter trials and experiences of the Peloponnesian War.
Among the chief influences to which he must have been subject were : first, the litera£yjtraditions_frani^^ on, and especially those of the earlier tragedians. Here would be a danger, tha...t he might copy the past instead of conforming his contents to the present. Second, he was bound by the religious teaching of the past, by the holy atmosphere of the festivals at wfiich his plays were produced, and by the old stories or myths which he had to use as plots, just as preachers today have to take their texts from the Bible. Third, he lived in a Greek city state and had been brought up under its peculiar political, social, and intellectual conditions. Fourth, he could not but have felt the effects of the disastrous Peloponnesian war, which marked the e nd of Ath er^' political .
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Lynn Thorndike to read onlineMoreLess
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