Classical Antiquity
In his clear preface, Gilbert Murray says with truth that _The Trojan Women_, valued by the usage of the stage, is not a perfect play. "It is only the crying of one of the great wrongs of the world wrought into music." Yet it is one of the greater dramas of the elder world. In...
Go, seek Cassandra, men! Make your best speed, That I may leave her with the King, and lead These others to their divers lords.... Ha, there! What means that sudden light? Is it...
1. Chapter 1In his clear preface, Gilbert Murray says with truth that _The Trojan Women_, valued by the usage of the stage, is not a perfect play. "It is only the crying of one of the great...
4. Chapter 4Set the great orb of Hector's shield to lie Here on the ground. 'Tis bitter that mine eye Should see it.... O ye Argives, was your spear Keen, and your hearts so low and cold, t...
3. Chapter 3Go, die, my best-beloved, my cherished one, In fierce men's hands, leaving me here alone. Thy father was too valiant; that is why They slay thee! Other children, like to die, Mi...
5. Chapter 5[33]Andromache.]--This character is wonderfully studied. She seems to me to be a woman who has not yet shown much character or perhaps had very intense experience, but is only w...