Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . the preceding is necessarilyinadequate. The English reader is referred to the histories of GreekLiterature by K. O. Miiller and by J. P. Mahaffy, to the strikingchapter on ^schylus in J. A. Symcmdss Greek Poets, and, for thetrilogy, to Moultons * Ancient Classical Drama. If he knows French,he should add Croisefs * Histoire de la Litterature Grecque, andshould by all means read M. Patins volume on ^schylus in his Etudes sur les Tragique Grecs. * There are translations in Englishof the poets complete works by Potter, by Plumptre. by Bl
Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . the preceding is necessarilyinadequate. The English reader is referred to the histories of GreekLiterature by K. O. Miiller and by J. P. Mahaffy, to the strikingchapter on ^schylus in J. A. Symcmdss Greek Poets, and, for thetrilogy, to Moultons * Ancient Classical Drama. If he knows French,he should add Croisefs * Histoire de la Litterature Grecque, andshould by all means read M. Patins volume on ^schylus in his Etudes sur les Tragique Grecs. * There are translations in Englishof the poets complete works by Potter, by Plumptre. by Blackie,and by Miss Swanwick. Flaxman illustrated the plays. Ancientillustrations are easily accessible in Baumeisters Denkmaler, underthe names of the different characters in the plays. There is a transla-tion of the Prometheus by Mrs. Browning, and of the Suppliantsby Morshead, who has also translated the Atridean trilogy underthe title of The House of Atrcus. Goldwin Smith has translatedportions of six of the plays in his < Specimens of Greek Tragedy.*. PROMETHEUS BOUND Nailed to this wall of eagle-baffling mountai ^SCHYLUS •93 Many tninslations of the Agamemnon * have been made, among oth-ers by Milman. by Symmons, by Lord Carnarvon, and by also translated the play, with appalling literalness.
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