Aeschylus; Sophocles; Euripides; Aristophanes
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“The Gods named you wrongly when they called you Forethought; you yourself need Forethought to extricate yourself from this contrivance.” (Page 41)
“for it is a dangerous thing to treat the Father’s words lightly” (Page 40)
“It’s delightful to be acquainted with the wisdom of today, and be able to look down on convention” (Page 719)
“We are dim shapes, no more, and weightless shadow.” (Page 177)
“It was I who set in order the omens of the highway and the flight of crooked-taloned birds, which of them were propitious or lucky by nature, and what manner of life each led, and what were their mutual hates, loves, and companionships; also I taught of the smoothness of the vitals and what color they should have to pleasure the Gods and the dappled beauty of the gall and the lobe. It was I who burned thighs wrapped in fat and the long shank bone and set mortals on the road to this murky craft.” (Page 45)
- Title: Aeschylus; Sophocles; Euripides; Aristophanes
- Authors: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes
- Edition: Second Edition
- Series: Great Books of the Western World
- Volume: 4
- Publishers: Encyclopedia Britannica, Robert P. Gwinn
- Print Publication Date: 1990
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Greek drama (Tragedy) › Translations into English; Greek drama (Comedy) › Translations into English; Mythology, Greek › Drama
- ISBNs: 0852295316, 9780852295311
- Resource ID: LLS:GBWW04
- Resource Type: text.monograph.ancient-manuscript.translation
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:12:09Z