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GREEK TRAGEDY
IN
THE LIGHT OF VASE PAINTINGS

(Size, about 1 ∶ 9)

MEDEIA AMPHORA IN THE OLD PINAKOTHEK, MUNICH

(Vid. p. 145 ff.)

GREEK TRAGEDY
IN
THE LIGHT OF VASE PAINTINGS

BY
JOHN H. HUDDILSTON
B.A. (Harv.), Ph.D. (Munich)
FORMERLY INSTRUCTOR IN GREEK IN THE NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AUTHOR OF ‘THE ESSENTIALS OF NEW TESTAMENT GREEK’ AND ‘THE ATTITUDE OF THE GREEK TRAGEDIANS TOWARD ART’
London
MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1898
Oxford
HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY
TO
PROFESSOR CARL RIEMENSCHNEIDER, Ph.D.
GERMAN WALLACE COLLEGE
BEREA, OHIO
WHOSE RARE CLASSICAL SCHOLARSHIP
IS ALL TOO LITTLE KNOWN
THIS VOLUME
BY ONE OF HIS FORMER PUPILS
IS AFFECTIONATELY
DEDICATED

Πλὴν ὁ Σιμωνίδης τὴν μὲν ζωγραφίαν ποίησιν σιωπῶσαν προσαγορεύει,τὴν δὲ ποίησιν, ζωγραφίαν λαλοῦσαν· ἃς γὰρ οἱ ζωγράφοιπράξεις ὁς γινομένας δεικνύουσι, ταύτας οἱ λόγοι γεγενημένας διηγοῦνταικαὶ συγγράφουσιν.

Plutarch, De Gloria Athen., c. 3.

Nec mirum, si ista, quae tamen in aliquo posita suntmotu, tantum in animis valent, cum pictura, tacens opuset habitus semper eiusdem, sic in intimos penetrat adfectus,ut ipsam vim dicendi nonnumquam superare videatur.

Quintilian, Inst. Orat., xi. 3. 67.
ix

PREFACE

Although the archaeologists and mythologists constitutefor the most part the number of those seriouslyconcerned with Greek vases, there still remain manyengaged in the study of Greek literature for whom thevases are bound to possess an abiding value, since theyoften relate the stories that Homer, Pindar, Aischylos,and Euripides tell. One may find on vases of the four

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