The Life of Greece by Durant Will

Author:Durant, Will [Durant, Will]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2011-06-03T20:00:00+00:00

Yet all man’s life is but ailing and dim,

And rest upon the earth comes never.

But if any far-off state there be,

Dearer than life to mortality,

The hand of the Dark hath hold thereof,

And mist is under and mist above.

And some are sick for life, and cling

On earth to this nameless and shining thing;

For other life is a fountain sealed,

And the deeps below us are unrevealed,

And we drift on legends forever.84

The nurse bears a message to Hippolytus that Phaedra’s bed will welcome him; he, knowing that she is his father’s wife, is horrified, and bursts into one of those passages that earned Euripides a reputation for misogyny:

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