E-text prepared by Richard Tonsing, Juliet Sutherland, Jane Robins, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes audio files and the original sheet music and illustrations for staging. See 54717-h.htm or 54717-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54717/54717-h/54717-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54717/54717-h.zip) Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). TWO DRAMATIZATIONS FROM VERGIL * * * * * * THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS CHICAGO, ILLINOIS THE BAKER & TAYLOR COMPANY NEW YORK THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON THE MARUZEN-KABUSHIKI-KAISHA TOKYO, OSAKA, KYOTO, FUKUOKA, SENDAI THE MISSION BOOK COMPANY SHANGHAI * * * * * * TWO DRAMATIZATIONS FROM VERGIL I. DIDO—The Phœnician Queen II. THE FALL OF TROY Arranged and Translated into English Verse by FRANK JUSTUS MILLER Author of _The Tragedies of Seneca, Translated into English Verse_ The Stage Directions and Music for the DIDO Are Contributed By J. Raleigh Nelson [Illustration] The University of Chicago Press Chicago, Illinois Copyright 1908 by Frank Justus Miller All Rights Reserved Published September 1908 Second Impression April 1913 Third Impression March 1917 Fourth Impression January 1920 Fifth Impression August 1924 Composed and Printed By The University of Chicago Press Chicago, Illinois U.S.A. PREFACE The epic is a drama on gigantic scale; its acts are years or centuries; its actors, heroes; its stage, the world of life; its events, those mighty cycles of activity that leave their deep impress on human history. Homer’s epics reënact the stirring scenes of the ten years’ siege of Troy, and the perilous, long wanderings of Ulysses before he reached his home; Vergil’s epic action embraces the fall of Troy and the never-ending struggles of Æneas and his band of exiles till Troy should rise again in the western world; Tasso pictures the heroic war of Godfrey and his crusaders, who strove to free the holy city of Jerusalem; and Milton, ignoring all bounds of time and space, fills his triple stage of heaven, earth, and hell with angels, men, and devils, all working out the most stupendous problems of human destiny.