6. Apollo, the god of song, archery and the sun (hence also called Helios, 71). 10. _AKRORINTH_, the citadel of Corinth, situated on a mountain above the city. 11. The pine was sacred to Poseidon. A wreath of pine was the award of victory in the games (54). 23. _DER GASTLICHE._ Zeus, to whom hospitality was sacred. 61. _PRYTANE_, _m._--_en_, prytanis, the chief magistrate. 82. _BÜHNE_, here used for the tiers of seats for the spectators. Compare _Schaugerüste_, 95. 91. _KEKROPS' STADT_==Athens. Kekrops, the legendary founder of the state of Athens. _AULIS_, a harbor in Boeotia. 92. _PHOKIS_, territory in Greece to the west of Boeotia. 103. _RIESENMAß_. Since the Greek actors wore buskins and a long mask, the gigantic stature of the chorus is in itself no indubitable proof of the supernatural origin of this chorus. Thus the spectators are unable to decide, whether they actually see the Eumenides or only a chorus impersonating them. This is the meaning of 145 and 146. This doubt yields to certainty as the action progresses (170 ff.). 117. _sense beguiling_, _heart deluding_. 118. _ERINNYEN_ or _Eumeniden_. _Eumenides_, are the avenging goddesses of Greek mythology, the Furies. 150. _weaves the dark entangled net of fate_. 173. _GEROCHEN_, common form is _gerächt_. 182. _DIE SZENE_==Greek _skaene_ [Greek: skaenae], _the stage_. 19. The problem of the limitation of human knowledge and of the human mind, already touched upon in Genesis 2, 17, had been brought into prominence in Schiller's time by the philosopher Kant. He had defined the limitations of the human mind: we can have no real knowledge of things themselves, but can know only the impressions that things make on our senses; furthermore our knowledge is limited to the finite, we have no knowledge of the Infinite, the Absolute. Schiller, not satisfied with the mere fact, in this poem expresses the conviction that there must be an ethical reason for this necessity, a reason that is beyond our ken. Compare also the beautiful words of Lessing: _"Nicht die Wahrheit, in deren Besitz irgend ein Mensch ist, oder zu sein vermeinet, sondern die aufrichtige Mühe, die er angewandt hat, hinter die Wahrheit zu kommen, macht den Wert des Menschen. Denn nicht durch den Besitz, sondern durch die Nachforschung der Wahrheit erweitern sich seine Kräfte, worin allein seine immer wachsende Vollkommenheit bestehet. Der Besitz macht ruhig, träge, stolz._ "_Wenn Gott in seiner Rechten alle Wahrheit, und in seiner Linken den einzigen immer regen Trieb nach Wahrheit, obschon mit dem Zusatze, mich immer und ewig zu irren, verschlossen hielte, und spräche zu mir: wähle! Ich fiele ihm mit Demut in seine Linke, und sagte: Vater, gib! die reine Wahrheit ist ja doch nur für dich allein!"_ SAIS, city in ancient Egypt, seat of a famous shrine to Isis. ÄGYPTENLAND, _Ägypten_==Egypt.