Euripides and His Age

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Euripides and His Age is a work by Gilbert Murray. The contents list names, among others, a chapter on Sources for a Life of Euripides and another headed What is a Greek Tragedy? The text says that Euripides, like ourselves, comes in an age of criticism following upon an age of movement and action.

The text says that in most of the current criticism on things Victorian, so far as it is not mere fashion or folly, one seems to feel the Victorian spirit itself speaking. The text says that art has to give a message from one man to another. The text says that in one tragedy the author shows a greatly increased sense of some reality that is behind appearances, some loyalty higher than the claims of friends or country.

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Gilbert Murray

Gilbert Murray was a classical scholar, translator, and internationalist who served as Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford. Hamlet and Orestes; a Study in Traditional Types was his 1914 Annual Shakespeare Lecture for the British Academy, comparing Shakespeare's prince with patterns found in Greek tragedy and heroic legend.