The plays of Euripides . ou so ? HiPPOLYTUS. Yea, by the Virgin of the Stainless Bow ! Son ! Ah, now I see thy nobleness ! HiPPOLYTUS. Pray that a true-born child may fill my place, me, thy righteous and godfearing heart! _ „ HiPPOLYTUS. Farewell; A long farewell, dear Father, ere we part! [Theseus bends down and embraces him passionately^ yet!—O hope and bear while thou hast breath ! HiPPOLYTUS. Lo, I have borne my burden. This is death. , , .Quick, Father ; lay the mantle on my face. [Theseus covers his face with a mantle and rises* bounds of Pa
The plays of Euripides . ou so ? HiPPOLYTUS. Yea, by the Virgin of the Stainless Bow ! Son ! Ah, now I see thy nobleness ! HiPPOLYTUS. Pray that a true-born child may fill my place, me, thy righteous and godfearing heart! _ „ HiPPOLYTUS. Farewell; A long farewell, dear Father, ere we part! [Theseus bends down and embraces him passionately^ yet!—O hope and bear while thou hast breath ! HiPPOLYTUS. Lo, I have borne my burden. This is death. , , .Quick, Father ; lay the mantle on my face. [Theseus covers his face with a mantle and rises* bounds of Pallas and of Pelops race,What greatness have ye lost! Woe, woe is me IThou Cyprian, long shall I remember thee ! HIPPOLYTUS 75 Chorus. On all this folk, both low and high,A grief hath fallen beyond mens cometh a throbbing of many tears, A sound as of waters when great men die,A mighty name and a bitter cry Rise up from a nation calling.[They move into the CastUy carrying the body e/ HiPPOLYTUS,. NOTES ON THE HIPPOLYTUS Prologue.—The Aphrodite of Euripides actualbehef, if one may venture to dogmatise on such asubject, was almost certainly not what we should calla goddess, but rather a Force of Nature, or a Spiritworking in the world. To deny her existence youwould have to say not merely, There is no suchperson, but There is no such thing ; and such adenial would be a defiance of obvious facts. It is inthis sense that it is possible to speak of Hippolytus assinning against Aphrodite. For the purposes of drama, of course, this thing must be made into a person, and even represented inhuman form according to the current conceptions ofmythology. And, once personified, she becomes, likemost of the Olympians in Euripides, certainly hatefuland perhaps definitely evil, though still far removedfrom the degraded, ultra-feminine goddess of Ovid andthe handbooks of mythology. In this prologue sheretains much of the impersonal grandeur of a Force ofNature. The wor
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