Chapter VI

, on metre and rhythm, will, I hope, be found useful. Greek

lyrics are so difficult that most students treat them as prose. I have done my best to be accurate, clear, and simple, with the purpose of enabling the sixth-form boy or undergraduate to read his “chorus” with a sense of metrical and rhythmical form. With regard to this chapter, even more than the others, I shall welcome criticism and advice.

I have to thank my wife for much help, and my friend Mr. Cyril Brett, M.A., who kindly offered to make the Index.

GILBERT NORWOOD

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

I. THE LITERARY HISTORY OF GREEK TRAGEDY 1

II. THE GREEK THEATRE AND THE PRODUCTION OF PLAYS 49

III. THE WORKS OF ÆSCHYLUS 84

IV. THE WORKS OF SOPHOCLES 132

V. THE WORKS OF EURIPIDES 186

VI. METRE AND RHYTHM IN GREEK TRAGEDY 327

INDEX 365

GREEK TRAGEDY

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