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Excerpt from A Study of Archaism in Euripides
I shall here consider some of the ways in which Euripides, the man of curious and ironic history, as Professor Murray terms him, set himself to restore and revivify old forms of tragedy and older usages, and in which he carried on the tradition of Aeschylus, the poet with whom Aristophanes unfavorably com pared him in the Hogs. Strange as it may seem to consider the sceptic and recluse, the innovator and reformer, as the suc cessor of the warrior of Marathon, we shall find it true that in many ways Euripides undertook successfully to revive and adapt the methods of Aeschylus, and that we can understand better many of the peculiarities of his dramatic technique, if we consider them from this point of view.
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