Excerpt from The Medea of Euripides: From the Text, and With a Translation of the Notes of Porson He invented the method of explaining his subject in a pro logue or long preface, almost entirely detached from the piece, in which usually one of the persons of the drama comes forward, and frigidly details all the events antecedent or relative to the action, gives his own genealogy or that of one of the principal characters, informs us of the' occasion of his descent from heaven, if he is a deity, or who has called him forth from the tomb, if a mortal and announces himself to the spectators by declaring his name. 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.