Euripides And The Spirit Of His Dramas Translated

Author : Paul Decharme
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330265147
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book Euripides and the Spirit of His Dramas written by Paul Decharme and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Euripides and the Spirit of His Dramas Euripides is the most modern of the Greek tragic poets, but he is an elusive poet, not easy to comprehend. Many even of his fellow-countrymen failed to understand him. His character, his philosophy, and his art, therefore, have peculiar interest far the modern reader; for, while his tragedies engage our sympathies and appeal to our hearts, his elusiveness pricks our intellectual curiosity. Among the many studies that have been made of this great poet the late Professor Paul Decharme's "Euripide et l'Esprit de son Theatre" is noteworthy at once for its breadth of view, power of close analysis, and vigor of presentation. I had greatly profited by the author's learned and persuasive treatment of his theme in this book, and thought that I might render good service by translating it into English; for there are still some English-speaking students whose unfamiliarity with French bars their way to books written in that language. Professor Decharme, with whom I had the good fortune to be personally acquainted, readily gave his consent, and continued to manifest lively and friendly interest in my undertaking as it progressed. A few errors have been corrected. These were mainly typographical and in the footnotes. In all other respects, I have adhered as closely as possible to the text of the book as published in 1893. It seemed best, however, to substitute for Professor Decharme's translations of Euripides' verse into French prose some authoritative English version of the Greek original. Nobody else has succeeded so well in rendering the poet's works into our own tongue as that eminent English scholar, Mr. Arthur S. Way. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.