Identifier: greekdramas00aesc (find matches)
Title: Greek dramas
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Aeschylus Sophocles Euripides Aristophanes Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861, tr Potter, R. (Robert), 1721-1804, tr Jebb, R. C, (Richard Claverhouse), 1841-1905, tr Francklin, Thomas, 1721-1784, tr Way, Arthur S, (Arthur Sanders), 1847-1930, tr Hickie, W. J., tr Perrin, Bernadotte, ed
Subjects: English drama Greek drama Translations into English English drama Translation from Greek
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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MEDEA. Friends, my resolve is taken with all speeds
To slay my children, and to flee this land
And not to linger an to yield my sons
to death by other hands more merciless.
The nees mmust die : and, since it needs must be
Even I will give them death, who gave them life.
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MEDEA 283
Up, gird thee for the fray, mine heart! Why loiter
To do the dread ill deeds that must be done?
Come, wretched hand of mine, grasp thou the sword ;
Grasp it—move toward lifes bitter starting-post,
And turn not craven : think not on thy babes,
How dear they are, how thou didst bear them : nay,
For this short day do thou forget thy sons,
Thereafter mourn them. For, although thou slay,
Yet dear they are, and I a wretched woman. [Exit Medea.
CHORUS. Strophe
O Earth, O all-revealing splendour
Of the Sun, look down on a woman accurst,
Or ever she slake the murder-thirst
Of a mother whose hands would smite the tender
Fruit of her womb.
Look down, for she sprang of thy lineage golden,
And by terror of men is the gods seed holden^l
And the shadow of doom.
But thou, O heaven-begotten glory,
Restrain her, refrain her: the wretched, the gory
Erinnys by demons dogged, we implore thee,
Cast forth of the home!
Antistrophe
For naught was the childbirth-travail wasted;
For naught didst thou bear them, the near and the
dear,

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