CHAPTER XV.

_THE FRAGMENTS OF ÆSCHYLUS, SOPHOCLES, EURIPIDES._

Alexandrian and Byzantine Anthologies.--Titles of the Lost Plays of Æschylus.--The _Lycurgeia_.--The Trilogy on the Story of Achilles.--The Geography of the _Prometheus Unbound_.--Gnomic Character of the Sophoclean Fragments.--Providence, Wealth, Love, Marriage, Mourning.--What is True of the Sophoclean is still more True of the Euripidean Fragments.--Mutilated Plays.--_Phaëthon_, _Erechtheus_, _Antiope_, _Danaë_.--Goethe's Restitution of the _Phaëthon_.--Passage on Greek Athletes in the _Autolycus_.--Love, Women, Marriage, Domestic Affection, Children.--Death.--Stoical Endurance.--Justice and the Punishment of Sin.--Wealth.--Noble Birth.--Heroism.--Miscellaneous Gnomic Fragments.--The Popularity of Euripides. Page 74