Is not these qualities that he specially seeks. Our poet knows the wildness and the beauty but it To the Fourth Pythian Ode of Pindar and the beautiful Argonautica ofĪpollonius Rhodius. Iliad, which later writers vaguely associate with the name of Eumêlus, Literature, from the mass of Corinthian lays older than our present The wildness and beauty of the Argo legend run through all Greek Somewhere, and in the story of Jason and Medea the flaw was of a fatal ForĪll but the very highest of romances are apt to have just one flaw Romance, a thing which is so terribly often the reverse of romantic.

So to speak, not with the romance itself, but with the end of the

Not a romantic play but a tragedy of character and situation. The Medea, in spite of its background of wonder and enchantment, is SOMETIME PROFESSOR OF GREEK IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW FELLOW OF NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH RHYMING VERSE WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES BY GILBERT MURRAY, M.A., LL.D. Produced by Barbara Watson and the Online Distributedįile was produced from images generously made availableīy The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MEDEA OF Euripides *** With this eBook or online at Title: Medea of Euripides Re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withĪlmost no restrictions whatsoever. The Project Gutenberg EBook of Medea of Euripides, by Euripides The Project Gutenberg eBook of 'The Medea of Euripides', by Gilbert Murray.

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