Quotes About Euripides

And women, though most helpless in doing good deeds, Are of every evil the cleverest of contrivers.

There is strange tyranny in the god who sent Against your house this cruel punishment.

Tú, Troya, patria mía, no serás ya contada entre las ciudades jamás conquistadas.

In your grief, too, I weep, mother of little children, You who will murder your own, In vengeance for the loss of married love

Dream not thou that force is power; Nor, if thou hast a thought, and that thought sour And sick, oh, dream not thought is wisdom!

For if I permitted this altar to be violated by force by a strange man, I shall not seem to inhabit a free country.

Hector. To think thus pleasures thee? Well, have it thus.

Cadmus: Shall we alone of all the city dance in Bacchus' honor? Teiresias: Yea, for we alone are wise, the rest are mad.

Truth's words are simple to utter and justice needs no subtle explanations. Justice is self explanatory. Injustice, however, being a sickness, requires complicated medicines and it is this sort of thinking that I have constructed about my father's house (words by Polyneices).

I think that Fortune watcheth o'er our lives, surer than we. But well said: he who strives will find his gods strive for him equally.

MEN. For thou thinkest inconsistently, now one thing, before another, another thing presently. AG. Well hast thou talked evil. Hateful is a too clever tongue. [20]

Odes were the compositions in which he took most delight, and it was long before he liked his Epistles and Satires. He told me what he read solidly at Oxford was Greek; not the Grecian historians, but Homer and Euripides, and now and then a little Epigram; that the study of which he was the most fond was Metaphysicks, but he had not read much, even in that way.

Dionysus had already been scared form the tragic stage, by a demonic power speaking through Euripides. Even Euripides was, in a sense, only a mask: the deity that spoke through him was neither Dionysus nor Apollo, but an altogether newborn demon, called Socrates .

and Euripides, faulty though he may be in the general management of his subject, yet is felt to be the most tragic of the poets.

The Chorus too should be regarded as one of the actors; it should be an integral part of the whole, and share in the action, in the manner not of Euripides but of Sophocles.

Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.

Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.

My mother was accursed the night she bore me,and I am faint with envy of all the dead.

Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.

There was at this time in Athens an extraordinarily large number of men of genius. The three great dramatists, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, all belong to the fifth century. Aeschylus fought at Marathon and saw the battle of Salamis. Sophocles was still religiously orthodox. But Euripides was influenced by Protagoras and by the free-thinking spirit of the time, and his treatment of the myths is sceptical and subversive. Aristophanes, the comic poet, made fun of Socrates, Sophists

I love melodrama. I love the simple fact. When you read Euripides he's a page turner. It's like reading a Mexican comic book romance.

Poetry is the Path on the Rainbow by which the soul climbs; it lays hold on the Friend of the Soul of Man. Such exalted states are held to be protective and curative. Medicine men sing for their patients, and, in times of war, wives gather around the Chief's woman and sing for the success of their warriors. Calling on Zeus by the names of Victory as Euripides puts it.

Venus, thy eternal sway All the race of men obey. Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis. He is not a lover who does not love for ever.

Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper.