Callias: A Tale of the Fall of Athens (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Alfred J. Church

9780331295474: Callias: A Tale of the Fall of Athens (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0331295474 ISBN 13: 9780331295474

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When the curtain rises, or rather, is withdrawn, as the Greek arrangement was, into an opening in the ﬂoor of the stage, a murmur of recognition runs through the audience. The scene is the market place of Thebes, and a familiar figure occupies the foreground.

The portly figure, the ruddy face, the vine-leaf crown, and the buskins Show him to be Bacchus, the patron-god, it will be remembered, of the Drama. But why this lion's skin and club? The god gives a lordly kick at the door of the house which was one of the familiar stage-properties, and Hercules appears. He roars with laughter to see his own emblems in such strange company. Bacchus explains. The tragic poets grow worse and worse. There is not one who can write a decent line. I am going down to the regions of the dead to fetch Euripides, and thought that I had better dress myself up in your fashion, for you, I know, made this same journey very successfully. Perhaps you will tell me something about the way, and what inns you can recommend, where they are free from ﬂeas, you know.

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