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. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... We have then the poet's authority, conveyed perhaps with unusual clearness (but not to my mind much more clearly than, for example, in the Ion), that 'Athena', and if 'Athena', if the national goddess, then a fortiori the anthropomorphic and legendary theology in general, is to be discarded from the ...
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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. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... We have then the poet's authority, conveyed perhaps with unusual clearness (but not to my mind much more clearly than, for example, in the Ion), that 'Athena', and if 'Athena', if the national goddess, then a fortiori the anthropomorphic and legendary theology in general, is to be discarded from the mind when we read the Iphigenia; that no such beings as the gods of tradition enter into the hypothesis about life and the world upon which his story proceeds. Nor are there wanting other indications to the same effect in the body of the play. The most remarkable perhaps is the well-known passage, brilliant with poetry and wit, where the fair Greek youths, Orestes and Pylades, sitting by the shore, are taken by some of the natives for gods.1 "In a cavernous breach, cleft by the strong rush of the waves, which gatherers of sea-purple use for shelter, one of our herdsmen saw two youths, and coming back on tip-toe, as one steps a ford, said 'Beware! There are gods here: yonder they sit'. And at the sight one of us, a man of piety, lifted up his hands and prayed: 'O son of the sea's Leucothea, protector of ships, our lord Palaemon, be gracious unto us, if these that sit on the beach be perchance the Twins of Zeus, or darlings of Nereus, sire of that fair band of fifty nymphs'. Whereupon another, an insolent fellow, disorderly and rash, laughed at the prayer, and said they were wrecked seamen, who had got into the cave for fear of our custom, when they were told that here the stranger is used for a sacrifice. The more part of us thought him right, and we resolved to capture for the goddess the victims that our wont awards her." Now few or none would suppose that the author here did not see, what the imaginary narrator is supposed too dull and...
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