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The Complete Euripides
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During the Hellenistic Age, the great tragedian Euripides became a cornerstone of ancient literary education, his plays exhibiting an iconoclastic, rationalising attitude toward both religious belief and the ancient myths that formed the traditional subject matter of Greek drama.
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Ion
Characters in the Play
Mercury
Ion
Creusa, daughter of Erechtheus
Xuthus, husband of Creusa
Tutor
Attendant
Priestess of Apollo
Minerva
Chorus of handmaidens of Creusa
Attendants of the Temple of Apollo
[Scene: Before the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. The sun is about to rise. Mercury enters.]
Mercury
Atlas, that on his brazen shoulders rolls
Yon heaven, the ancient mansion of the gods,
Was by a goddess sire to Maia; she
To supreme Jove bore me, and callād me Hermes;
Attendant on the king, his high behests
I execute. To Delphi am I come,
This land where Phoebus from his central throne
Utters to mortals his high strain, declaring
The present and the future; this is the cause;
Greece hath a city of distinguishād glory,
Which from the goddess of the golden lance
Received its name; Erechtheus was its king;
His daughter, callād Creusa, to the embrace
Of nuptial love Apollo strainād perforce,
Where northward points the rock beneath the heights
Crownād with the Athenian citadel of Pallas,
Callād Macrai by the lords of Attica.
Her growing burden, to her sire unknown
(Such was the pleasure of the god), she bore,
Till in her secret chamber to a son
The rolling months gave birth: to the same cave,
Where by the enamourād god she was compressād,
Creusa bore the infant: there for death
Exposed him in a well-compacted ark
Of circular form, observant of the...
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Alcestis
- Andromache
- The Bacchantes
- The Cyclops
- Electra
- Hecuba
- Helen
- The Heracleidae
- Heracles
- Hippolytus
- Ion
- Iphigenia at Aulis
- Iphigenia in Tauris
- Medea
- Orestes
- The Phoenissae
- Rhesus
- The Suppliants
- The Trojan Women