Excerpt from Matthew Arnold's Merope: To Which Is Appended the Electra of Sophocles The present volume has been designed for two classes of readers, for the general reader who may wish to know in detail and with exactness what typical Greek tragedies were like, or who with some knowledge of Greek may be interested in the questions dealt with in the Introduction and Notes, and for students in schools and other educational institutions where Greek is or is not taught. For this reason Mempe has been somewhat elaborately annotated in the hope that it may be studied with the same care and thoroughness that textbooks prescribed for examinations necessarily are. Considering how largely Greek traditions and associations, both generally and especially in relation to its mythology, enter into the works of our own classics, and the acknow ledged importance of Greek literature as an element in liberal education, there is surely no reason why translations of classical excellence should not have a place among the textbooks in our curricula. 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.