Excerpt from Euripides: Translated Into English Rhyming Verse by Gilbert Murray, M. A., LL. D I have taken first two plays of Euripides the Hippolytus and T/ze Baccfiae - chosen partly for their beauty, partly because they are very characteristic of their author. Different as they are, both are peculiarly imbued with his special atmosphere, an atmosphere of creativeness steeped in critical meditation, of Fiction that exists for the sake of Truth - sometimes to ex press Truth, sometimes consciously to fly from Truth, but always in some way intimately conditioned by the search for it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.