Aeschylean Tragedy (Smyth 1924)

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Aeschylean Tragedy (1924)
by Herbert Weir Smyth

Prefatory Note

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SATHER CLASSICAL LECTURES

VOLUME TWO

1923

AESCHYLEAN TRAGEDY

BY

HERBERT WEIR SMYTH

ELIOT PROFESSOR OF GREEK LITERATURE IN HARVARD
UNIVERSITY; SATHER PROFESSOR IN THE
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 1923

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA

1924

Copyright, 1924
by the
University of California Press

CONTENTS

	PAGE
Prefatory Note	v
Chapter I. Introduction	1
Chapter II. The Suppliant Maidens	33
Chapter III. The Persians	64
Chapter IV. Prometheus	92
Chapter V. The Seven Against Thebes	123
Chapter VI. Orestea. I: Agamemnon	151
Chapter VII. Orestea. II: The Libation-Bearers	179
Chapter VIII. Orestea. III: Eumenides	205

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