The Ion of Euripides With a Translation Into English Verse and an Introduction and Notes (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Ion of Euripides: With a Translation Into English Verse and an Introduction and Notes AT the end of the prologue to the play before us, the god Hermes, by whom it is spoken, retires among the bay-trees in the precinct of Delphi, declaring his intention to 'see out' the events which Apollo has determined to accomplish in the course of the day. It is much to be wished, that we had been permitted to hear in an epilogue, instead of the vacuous revelations of the goddess Athena, the remarks of the divine Interpreter upon the events which he actually saw, and that we might have had the help of his critical sagacity in forming our own opinion. He went away doubtless a wiser and, one must suppose, a sadder god; and he must have carried impartiality almost to a fault if, with Paley, he could 'safely pronounce the [on one of the most perfect of the Greek Tragedies'. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.