Stories from the Greek Tragedians
By the Rev. Alfred J. Church, M.A.
AUTHOR OF
"Stories from Homer" and "Stories from Virgil"
With Twenty Illustrations from Designs
by FLAXMAN and Others
New York
Dodd, Mead and Company
The Chariot Of Zeus
Preface.
I have added to the "Story of the Seven Chiefs against Thebes" the description of the single combat between Eteocles and Polynices, which occurs in the Phœnissæ of Euripides. Some changes have been made in the "Story of Ion" to make it more suitable for the purpose of this book. Throughout the Stories compression and omission have been freely used. I can only ask the indulgence of such of my readers as may be familiar with the great originals of which I have given these pale and ineffectual copies.
RETFORD,
October 11, 1879.
To my Sons,
Alfred, Maurice, Herbert,
Richard, Edward, Harald.
This Book
is dedicated.
Contents
- Preface.
- Contents
- The Story Of The Love Of Alcestis.
- The Story Of The Vengeance Of Medea.
- The Story Of The Death Of Hercules.
- The Story Of The Seven Chiefs Against Thebes.
- The Story Of Antigone.
- The Story Of Iphigenia In Aulis.
- The Story Of Philoctetes, Or The Bow Of Hercules.
- The Story Of The Death Of Agamemnon.
- The Story Of Electra, Or The Return Of Orestes.
- The Story Of The Furies, Or The Loosing Of Orestes.
- The Story Of Iphigenia Among The Taurians.
- The Story Of The Persians, Or The Battle Of Salamis.
- The Story Of Ion.
- The Ajax Series
- Notes