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CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER XXV. | |||
| EURIPIDES. | |||
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| § | 1. | Difference between Sophocles and Euripides. The latter essentially speculative. Tragedy, a subject ill-suited for his genius | 357 |
| § | 2. | Intrusion of tragedy into the interests of the private | 359 |
| § | 3. | And public life of the time | 360 |
| § | 4. | Alterations in the plan of tragedy introduced by Euripides. Prologue | 362 |
| § | 5. | And Deus ex machina | 363 |
| § | 6. | Comparative insignificance of the chorus. Prevalence of monodies | 364 |
| § | 7. | Style of Euripides | 366 |
| § | 8. | Outline of his plays: the Alcestis | ib. |
| § | 9. | The Medea | 367 |
| § | 10. | The Hippolytus | 368 |
| § | 11. | The Hecuba | 369 |
| § | 12. | Epochs in the mode of treating his subject: the Heracleidæ | 370 |
| § | 13. | The Suppliants | 371 |
| § | 14. | The Ion | ib. |
| § | 15. | The raging Heracles | 372 |
| § | 16. | The Andromache | 373 |
| § | 17. | The Trojan Women | ib. |
| § | 18. | The Electra | 374 |
| § | 19. | The Helena | 375 |
| § | 20. | The Iphigenia at Tauri | 376 |
| § | 21. | The Orestes | 377 |
| § | 22. | The Phœnician Women | ib. |
| § | 23. | The Bacchanalians | 378 |
| § | 24. | The Iphigenia at Aulis | 379 |
| § | 25. | Lost pieces: the Cyclops | 380 |
| CHAPTER XXVI. | |||
| THE OTHER TRAGIC POETS. | |||
| § | 1. | Inferiority of the other tragic poets | 381 |
| § | 2. | Contemporaries of Sophocles and Euripides: Neophron, Ion, Aristarchus, Achæus, Carcinus, Xenocles | 382 |
| § | 3. | Tragedians somewhat more recent: Agathon; the anonymous son of Cleomachus. Tragedy grows effeminate | 383 |
| § | 4. | Men of education employ tragedy as a vehicle of their opinions on the social relations of the age | 384 |
| § | 5. | The families of the great tragedians: the Æschyleans, Sophocleans, and the younger Euripides | 385 |
| § | 6. | Influence of other branches of literature; tragedy is treated by Chæremon in the spirit of lax and effeminate lyric poetry | 386 |
| § | 7. | Tragedy is subordinated to rhetoric in the dramas of Theodectes | 387 |
| CHAPTER XXVII. | |||
| § | 1. | The comic element in Greek poetry due to the worship of Bacchus | 391 |
| § | 2. | Also connected with the Comus at the lesser Dionysia: Phallic Songs | 393 |
| § | 3. | Beginnings of dramatic comedy at Megara, Susarion, Chionides, &c. | 395 |
