STUDIES OF THE GREEK POETS BY JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS AUTHOR OF "SKETCHES AND STUDIES IN SOUTHERN EUROPE" ETC. _Im Ganzen, Guten, Schönen Resolut zu leben_ IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. II. [Illustration] NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS FRANKLIN SQUARE 1880 CONTENTS OF VOL. II. CHAPTER XIV. _GREEK TRAGEDY AND EURIPIDES._ Two Conditions for the Development of a National Drama.--The Attic Audience.--The Persian War.--Nemesis the Cardinal Idea of Greek Tragedy.--Traces of the Doctrine of Nemesis in Early Greek Poetry.--The Fixed Material of Greek Tragedy.--Athens in the Age of Euripides.--Changes introduced by him in Dramatic Art.--The Law of Progress in all Art.--Æschylus, Sophocles, Euripides.--The Treatment of #eupsychia# by Euripides.--Menoikeus.--The Death of Eteocles and Polynices.--Polyxena.--Medea.--Hippolytus.--Electra and Orestes.--Injustice done to Euripides by Recent Critics. Page 9 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 CHAPTER XVI. _THE FRAGMENTS OF THE LOST TRAGIC POETS._