Iphigenia Among the Taurians - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...and 8p6povs KaWtffTadiovs &£eivoy Karh nbvrov.' Accurate rhythmical recitation of choral odes, so far from being inconsistent with due expressiveness, helps to reveal the effective harmony between sense and form. A fluent and distinct enunciation is needed, and careful practice, until the rhythm takes care of itself, or becomes only a sub-consciousness, while the mind of the reader dwells upon the thought, the imagery, and the feeling. in. : L_ iui _s L_ Ii v i_ _w_aii--w w II--w w I--w w I--w w I _ A II I. 4.4.4. 4. 4. II. 44.44. III. 44. 44. 4. The responsion is imperfect in Zv8a Tss iajoKT6vov, v. 1113. The sentiment is still present that found utterance at the close of the first stasimon, the captives' regret and vain imaginings. The rhythm of the two odes is very similar. The movement here is quite uniform. Both the uniformity and the lack of anacrusis in the first period of strophe 1 add to the plaintive singing effect. There is some recovery from this steadfast plaint at the close of strophe 2, where the uninterrupted flow of cyclic dactyls is to be noted in the last verse but one. Observe the resemblance in sound between ZXtyov and hrarov, /hoxttcus and Xoyxms, which occupy corresponding positions in strophe and antistrophe 1. The recurrence of the same strain of music and the same dance-figure enforces such verbal correspondences, which occur frequently and cannot be regarded as accidental. ':-w j-w w _ A II: _w i i_ I_w_wl_i_a I. 4. 33. II. 3.44. 3.3. 44.3. III. 5.5. 5. 4. IV. 44. 44. V. 3.4.3.3.4. 6. In subject the third stasimon stands quite by itself. It is a chapter in sacred history, and the one long strophe has a certain tranquillity of rhythm, with a single pointed departure therefrom in the fourth...

Euripides (c. 480 406 BCE) wrote some ninety plays, nineteen of which have survived.