INSCRIBED

ΤΟ

PROFESSOR S. H. BUTCHER,

LITT.D., LL.D., M.P.,

IN

GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE

OF HIS

TEACHINGS, INSPIRATIONS AND ENCOURAGEMENTS

FOREWORD

In order to concentrate the teachings of certain passages, I have sometimes in these pages made free paraphrases, rather than literal translations, from the Tragedies. Such a method lies more along the line of my purpose in this book.

Eschylus: 'Seven against Thebes.' Sophocles: Anti-
Euripides Phoenician Women' and

gone.'
'Suppliants.'

XVI. THE MYTH OF HERCULES

Euripides: Alcestis' and 'Hercules Furens.' Sophocles:

Trachiniæ.' Euripides: Heracleida.'

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