Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, 1914, Vol. 45
Euripides is a poet in whom many faults have been found. From the time of Aristophanes to the present day men have demonstrated that in one way or another Euripides has done his work very badly. By some indeed he has been condemned as having no good in him whatever. And yet he lives and triumphs in spite of his detractors. Damnatur nec alget. He is not only one of that slender company of three whose tragedies alone, out of all that were acted on the slopes of the Acropolis, antiquity has seen fit to spare to us; it would be enough of earthly fame to be a member of a triad whose other two were Aeschylus and Sophocles. But one may fairly say that Euripides himself commands even greater attention than these other two. It is easier to name three or four solid volumes of Euripidean criticism which have appeared even within the last twenty-five years than it is to find the same number of similar works on either Aeschylus or Sophocles. Men often allow the superiority of these other two; but they read Euripides, and think of him, and write of him.
Of all the eighteen or nineteen plays from Euripides' hand which we still possess none has a reputation more typical of the poet himself than the one called Hippolytus.
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