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Roman Roads Reader: Drama and Lyric Roman Roads Reader: Drama and Lyric Selections from Greek Drama & Lyric Companion Book for Greeks: Drama and Lyric, a video course by Roman Roads Media. Euripides, Sappho, Pindar, Hesiod, Theocritus, Quintus of Smyrna, and Apollonius of Rhodes Edited by Daniel Foucachon This book has been designed to accompany the video course Greeks: Drama and Lyric, part of the Old Western Culture series by Roman Roads Media. To find out more about this course, visit www.romanroadsmedia.com While the selections contained in this volume match the specific course of study for Drama and Lyric (mentioned above), this selection may be of great use and enjoyment to any student of the classics, and we hope it finds its way into your library. Other titles in the Old Western Culture Series by Roman Roads Media: Greeks: -- The Epics (The Iliad & The Odyssey) -- Drama and Lyric (The Tragedies, Comedies, and Minor Poets) -- The Histories (Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon) -- The Philosophers (Plato and Aristotle) Romans: -- The Roman Epic (The Aeneid, Ovid, and Lucretius) -- The Historians (Livy, Tacitus, Salust, Julius Caesar, Plutarch, and Cicero) -- Early Christianity (Clementine, Ignatius, Irenaeus, Justin Martyr, and Eusebius) -- Post-Nicene Christianity (Athanasius, Augustine, and Boethius) Christendom: -- Early Medieval (St. Benedict, Bede, Charlemagne, and Alfred the Great) -- The Defense of the Faith (Anselm, Geffrey of Monmoth, The Golden Legend) -- The Medieval Mind (Dante and Aquinas) -- The Reformation (Erasmus, Calvin, Cranmer, Spencer, and Chaucer) Early Moderns: -- Early British Poetry (Metaphysical Poets, Milton, Shakespeare, and Bunyan) -- The Rise of Enlightenment (Bacon, Descartes, Locke, Rousseau, Jefferson, Burke, and Alexis de Toqueville) -- Later British Poetry (Neo-Classical Poetry, Victorian Poetry, and Romantic Poetry) -- The Novels (Austen, Dickens, Dostoevsky, Hugo) Other video courses by Roman Roads Media: Grammar of Poetry (Matt Whitling) French Cuisine (Francis Foucachon) Introductory Logic (Jim Nance) Intermediate Logic (Jim Nance) Video Curriculum | Classical Education | Christian Perspective Roman Roads Reader: Drama and Lyric Selections from Greek Drama & Lyric Companion Book for Greeks: Drama and Lyric, a video course by Roman Roads Media. Euripides, Sappho, Pindar, Hesiod, Theocritus, Quintus of Smyrna, and Apollonius of Rhodes Edited by Daniel Foucachon Copyright © 2013 by Roman Roads Media, LLC Roman Roads Media 739 S Hayes St Moscow, Idaho 83843 www.romanroadsmedia.com Roman Roads combines its technical expertise with the experience of established authorities in the field of classical education to create quality video courses and resources tailored to the homeschooler. Just as the first century roads of the Roman Empire were the physical means by which the early church spread the gospel far and wide, so Roman Roads Media uses today’s technology to bring timeless truth, goodness, and beauty into your home. By combining excellent instruction augmented with visual aids and examples, we help inspire in your children a lifelong love of learning. Printed in the United States of America ISBN: 978-0-9897028-0-5 Table of Contents EURIPIDES (PLAYS) ........................................................................................ 1 THE MEDEA ................................................................................................... 1 THE TROJAN WOMEN ................................................................................. 39 SAPPHO (POEMS)...................................................................................... 101 HYMN TO APHRODITE ............................................................................... 101 SECOND POEM .......................................................................................... 102 THIRD POEM ............................................................................................. 103 FOURTH POEM .......................................................................................... 104 FIFTH POEM .............................................................................................. 105 INVOCATION TO APHRODITE .................................................................... 105 PINDAR (ODES) ......................................................................................... 107 5TH NEMEAN ODE .................................................................................... 107 10TH PYTHIAN ODE ................................................................................... 109 1ST OLYPIAN ODE...................................................................................... 112 1ST ISTHMIAN ODE ................................................................................... 115 THEOCRITUS (IDYLLS) ................................................................................ 119 IDYLL I. ...................................................................................................... 119 IDYLL VI ..................................................................................................... 125 IDYLL VII .................................................................................................... 127 IDYLL XI ..................................................................................................... 133 HESIOD (WORKS & DAYS) ......................................................................... 137 QUINTUS OF SMYRNA (FALL OF TROY) ...................................................... 155 BOOK I ....................................................................................................... 155 BOOK III ..................................................................................................... 174 BOOK V ..................................................................................................... 190 BOOK XII .................................................................................................... 204 APOLLONIUS OF RHODES (ARGONAUTICA) ............................................... 215 BOOK I ........................................................................................................ 215 BOOK II ....................................................................................................... 251 BOOK III ...................................................................................................... 278 BOOK IV ...................................................................................................... 308 A note about line numbers. You will notice that the longer works in this collection have numbers at the beginning most paragraphs. These roughly correspond to the original line numbers in the Greek, and are a way of referencing the specific parts. Large works are divided into “books” rather than the chapters we use in modern books. If you wanted to reference a certain part of a larger work, such as Argonautica, you might inscribe it thusly: [Argonautica, III.22]. This would tell the reader that you are referencing Argonautica, Book III, line 22. This is a very common short hand for classical books. For term papers, please reference Kate Turabian’s Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (University of Chicago Press). The Medea Euripides TRANS. BY THEODORE ALOIS BUCKLEY PERSONS REPRESENTED: Nurse Jason Tutor Ægeus Medea Messenger Chorus of Corinthian women Sons of Medea Creon The Scene lies in the vestibule of the palace of Jason at Corinth. THE ARGUMENT. ason, having come to Corinth, and bringing with him Medea, espouses Glauce, the daughter of Creon, king of Corinth. But Medea, on the Jpoint of being banished from Corinth by Creon, having asked to remain one day, and having obtained her wish, sends to Glauce, by the hands of her sons, presents, as an acknowledgment for the favor, a robe and a golden chaplet, which she puts on and perishes; Creon also having embraced his daughter is destroyed. But Medea, when she had slain her children, escapes to Athens, in a chariot drawn by winged dragons, which she received from the Sun, and there marries Ægeus son of Pandion. ROMAN ROADS READER: DRAMA & LYRIC NURSE OF MEDEAi. Would that the hull of Argo had not winged her way to the Colchian land through the Cyanean Symplegades,ii and that the pine felled in the forests of Pelion had never fallen, nor had caused the hands of the chiefs to row,iii who went in search of the golden fleece for Pelias; for neither then would my mistress Medea have sailed to the towers of the Iolcian land, deeply smitten in her mind with the love of Jason; nor having persuaded the daughters of Pelias to slay their father would she have inhabited this country of Corinth with her husband and her children, pleasing indeed by her flightiv the citizens to whose land she came, and herself concurring in every respect with Jason; which is the surest support of conjugal happiness, when the wife is not estranged from the husband. But now every thing is at variance, and the dearest ties are weakened. For having betrayed his own children, and my mistress, Jason reposes in royal wedlock, having married the daughter of Creon, who is prince of this land. But Medea the unhappy, dishonored, calls on his oaths, and recalls the hands they plighted, the greatest pledge of fidelity, and invokes the gods to witness what return she meets with from Jason. And she lies without tasting food, having sunk her body in grief, dissolving all her tedious time in tears, after she had once known that she had been injured by her husband, neither
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