The Plays of Aeschylus

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Excerpt from The Plays of Aeschylus: Translated From a Revised Text, The ChoephoroeThe object of these prose translations is to enable those who know some Greek to read the Greek of [eschylus correctly. They have never dreamed of pretending to any value as artistic form. N o prose, however well it might be used, could ever represent such verse aesthetically 3 only verse can do that 3 and so long as verse affords the means of doing it, to seek the same end with a less effective instru ment I have always looked upon as a mistaken aim. Prose has a proper function of its own, a separate and different one - to Show how the Greek is to be construed, it is superior for that purpose, and should be content, I think, if it can achieve it without more offence than necessary. The true spirit and cmféd are only in the power of verse to give, but verse itself is not in a position to convey them until first it understands the meaning of the poet's words 3 and it is in that preliminary business of explaining that a prose version has its legitimate and useful province. Whether the text has been restored correctly, and the sense of it correctly rendered, - those are the two points on which a prose translation of a poem should be judged.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.