CONTENTS.
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| § | 8. | Meaning of the protagonist, deuteragonist, tritagonist | 305 |
| § | 9. | The changes of the scene inconsiderable; ancient tragedy not being a picture of outward acts | 307 |
| § | 10. | Eccyclema | 309 |
| § | 11. | Composition of the drama from various parts; songs of the entire chorus | 310 |
| § | 12. | Division of a tragedy by the choral songs | 312 |
| § | 13. | Songs of single persons, of the chorus, and of the actors | ib. |
| § | 14. | Parts of the drama intermediate between song and speech | 315 |
| § | 15. | Speech of the actors; arrangement of the dialogue and its metrical form | 316 |
| CHAPTER XXIII. | |||
| ÆSCHYLUS. | |||
| § | 1. | Life of Æschylus | 317 |
| § | 2. | Number of his tragedies, and their distribution into trilogies | 319 |
| § | 3. | Outline of his tragedies; the Persians | 320 |
| § | 4. | The Phineus and the Glaucus Pontius | 321 |
| § | 5. | The Ætnæan women | 322 |
| § | 6. | The Seven against Thebes | 323 |
| § | 7. | The Eleusiniaus | 324 |
| § | 8. | The Suppliants; the Egyptians | 325 |
| § | 9. | The Prometheus bound | 327 |
| § | 10. | The Prometheus unbound | 329 |
| § | 11. | The Agamemnon | 331 |
| § | 12. | The Choephorœ | 332 |
| § | 13. | The Eumenides, and the Proteus | 333 |
| § | 14. | General characteristics of the poetry of Æschylus | 335 |
| § | 15. | His latter years and death | 336 |
| CHAPTER XXIV. | |||
| SOPHOCLES. | |||
| § | 1. | Condition in which tragic poetry came into the hands of Sophocles. His first appearance | 338 |
| § | 2. | Subsequent events of his life; his devotion to the drama | 338 |
| § | 3. | Epochs in the poetry of Sophocles | 340 |
| § | 4. | Thorough change in the form of tragedy | 341 |
| § | 5. | Outline of his plays; the Antigone | 342 |
| § | 6. | The Electra | 344 |
| § | 7. | The Trachinian Women | 346 |
| § | 8. | King Œdipus | ib. |
| § | 9. | The Ajax | 348 |
| § | 10. | The Philoctetes | 350 |
| § | 11, | 12. The Œdipus at Colonus, in connexion with the character and conduct of Sophocles in his latter years | 351 |
| § | 13. | The style of Sophocles | 355 |
