History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . e sunk into the boys soul! Because like.(Eschylus—the first great writer of tragedies—he too sees the willof the gods in all that happens to men. He uplifts his audienceto worship Zeus, however dark the destiny which the great godlays upon men. For Sophocles is no friend of the Sophists, whoscoff at the gods. 219. Euripides. But our citizen is inclined to distrust thenew sensational plays of Euripides, the son of a farmer who liveson the island of Salamis (Fig. 40). He is a friend and companionof the Sophists,
History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . e sunk into the boys soul! Because like.(Eschylus—the first great writer of tragedies—he too sees the willof the gods in all that happens to men. He uplifts his audienceto worship Zeus, however dark the destiny which the great godlays upon men. For Sophocles is no friend of the Sophists, whoscoff at the gods. 219. Euripides. But our citizen is inclined to distrust thenew sensational plays of Euripides, the son of a farmer who liveson the island of Salamis (Fig. 40). He is a friend and companionof the Sophists, and in matters of religion his mind is troubledwith doubts. His new plays are all filled with these doubts re-garding the gods, and they have raised a great many questions Athens in the Age of Pericles 147 and some doubts which the citizen has never been able to banishfrom his own mind since he heard them. Sophocles therefore suitsall the old-fashioned folk, and it is very rarely that Euripides, inspite of his great ability, has been able to carry off the prize. The ,^ifflJr. Fig. 46. The Theater of Athens This theater was the center of the growth and development of Greek drama,which began as a part of the celebration of the spring feast of Dionysus,god of the vine and the fruitfulness of the earth (§§ 144, 174, 212, 217).The temple of the god stood here, just at the left. Long before anyone knewof such a thing as a theater the people gathered at this place to watch thecelebration of the gods spring feast, where they formed a circle about thechorus, which narrated in song the stories of the gods (§ 174). This circle(called the orchestra) was finally marked out permanently and seats of woodfor the spectators were erected in a semicircle on one side, but the singing andaction all took place in the circle on the level of the ground. On the sideopposite the public was a booth, or tent (Greek skene, scene) for theactors, and out of this finally developed the stage. From the
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