An Essay in Isometry, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Often, when I have been reading various portions of lyrical Greek, both in the course of private study and as a schoolmaster with a form, I have been impelled to doubt the validity of the correspondence, in strophic-antistrophic composition, between one long and two shorts. The examples of the correspondence so frequently appeared to me to be associated with readings either obviously corrupt or at any rate of great difficulty, and the correspondence itself seemed to be so distinct an exception to the prevailing laws of choric composition, that my suspicions became thoroughly aroused.

But my ordinary reading enabled me to come to no definite conclusion. A group of tragedies, or even a book of Pindaric odes, contains by itself insufficient data for such a purpose.

Consequently I determmed to go through Greek lyrical poetry as a whole in search of a solution of the problem. I began with Bacchylides (my notes on whom I have since revised in the light obtained from the study of other lyrics), and went on with Pindar. I then worked through half Aeschylus and all Sophocles. Up to this point, I seemed to find my doubt amply confirmed.

Next, I approached Euripides. Several plays of that author fell at once into line.

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