Menelâüs ("slay us"), 113, 158 _ff._, 176 _f._, 206 Meredith, G., 103, 203 Messenger, 214-220 Milêtus, Fall of, 66 Military Service, 43, 101 _f._, 105 Miltîades (iota with vrachy in Greek), 43, 49 Milton, 9, 208 Mnesílochus, 29 Muses, 34, 105 Mysteries, 36 Mystery Plays, 62, 65, 185 Mysticism, 8, 163 Nature, opposed to Convention, 53 _f._ Nelson, Horatio, 231 Neîrekepta, 230 Nestlé, 8 New Comedy, 173 _f._, 201 _f._ "_Nómos._" _See_ Convention Norwood, G., 8 Old Age, 166 Old Year, 63 _f._ Olympic Games, 113 Oréstes, 66, 153 _ff._ _See under_ Euripides Parian Marble, 22 Paris, Gaston, 61 Pasíphaë, 79 Patriotism, 98. _See_ Plays, patriotic Paul, 141 Peasants, Greek, 46 _f._, 117 Peloponnêsian War, 91, 94, 107-110 Péntheus, 66, 181 _ff._ Péricles, 43, 52, 58, 91, 108 _f._ Persians, 37 Persian War, 37, 48 Phaêdra, 86-88, 213 _f._ Philóchorus, 24 _ff._, 27 Philodêmus, 168 Phl[^y]a, 35 _f._, 46 Phr[^y]nichus, 42 _Phûsis_ (upsilon with vrachy in Greek). _See_ Nature Pindar, 48, 121, 140 Plato, 15, 29, 32, 50, 140 Plays. _See under_ Authors: Euripides', patriotic, 91 _f._, 98; early, 70-73; after 415, 142 _ff._ Plûtarch, 113 Poets, ancient and modern, 102 _f._ Polygnôtus, 42, 44 Porson, 9 Preparation, 216-221 Pródicus, 56 Prologues, 207-212 Promêtheus, 206. _See_ Aeschylus Protágoras, 30, 54-56 Pythágoras, 49 Realism, 19, 76, 174, 224; aversion from, 103 _f._ Religion, 190-194 Resurrection, 35, 64, 181, 190 _f._ Rhyme, 203 Ridgeway, 65 Ritual in tragedy, 62-67, 174, 202; forms, 64, 181 Romance, 73 _f._, 142-146, 205 Russell, B., 243 Salamis, 29, 37, 165; battle of, 22, 66 Sátyrus, 23 _ff._, 31 Sátyr-plays, 67 _f._ Scott, W., 33 Sex questions, 78 _f._, 121 Shakespeare, 60, 208 _f._, 243 Shaw, G. B., 206 Shelley, 9, 18, 95, 234 Sicilian Expedition, 130, 170, 194 Sicily, 130, 170 Simônides, 144 Sincerity of Greek Tragedy, 204 Slavery, 137-139, 175-178, 123-125 Sócrates, 29, 56 Sophists, 45 _f._, 50-59, 116 _Sóphia_ (Wisdom), 38, 50, 92, 109, 194 Sóphocles, 9, 11, 34, 172, 206 Ajax, 66 Antígone, 34, 70, 206 Eléctra, 153, 156, 207 Oêdipus Tyránnus, 34, 216, 236 Philoctêtes, 76 Sparta, 38 Speeches in tragedy, 212 Steiger, 9 Stesíchorus, 147 "_Súnesis_," 191 Superstition, 43 _f._, 116-119, 224 _f._ Swinburne, 18, 185, 203 Sympathy, shift of, 187 _f._ Tácitus, 21 Tennyson, 103 Thebes, 42, 149 Themístocles, 37, 41 _ff._, 49, 169 Theophany. _See Deus ex Mâchinâ_ Thêseus, 43, 95; sons of, 89; in Hippolytus, 87 Thesmophória. _See_ Aristophanes Thracians, 44 Thucydides, 107-110, 127-130, 170 Timótheus, 30, 170 Tolstoy, 168 Tradition, 14; of fifth century, 15; in tragedy, 62-67, 174, 183; in art, 17 Tragedy, origin, 64 _f._; ritual in, _see_ Ritual; essence, 244 _f._; dress, etc., 75 _f._; performances, 68; "most tragic," 10, 135, 245 Translations, 198 _ff._ Trilogy, 67 Vegetation-spirit, 35, 62 _ff._