Hippolytus The Bacchae (Webster's Thesaurus Edition)

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by  Euripides

Hippolytus
The Bacchae

Webster’s Thesaurus Edition for PSAT®, SAT®, GRE®, LSAT®,
GMAT®, and AP® English Test Preparation

Euripides
Translated by GILBERT MURRAY

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Hippolytus
The Bacchae

Webster’s Thesaurus Edition for PSAT®, SAT®, GRE®, LSAT®,
GMAT®, and AP® English Test Preparation

Euripides
Translated by GILBERT MURRAY

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Scholarship Corporation neither of which sponsors or endorses this book; SAT® is a registered trademark of the
College Board which neither sponsors nor endorses this book; GRE®, AP® and Advanced Placement® are
registered trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which neither sponsors nor endorses this book,
GMAT® is a registered trademark of the Graduate Management Admissions Council which is neither affiliated
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ISBN 0-497-01043-7
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Contents

PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR..........................................................................................1

INTRODUCTORY NOTE.....................................................................................................3

HIPPOLYTUS....................................................................................................................5

PERSONS REPRESENTED.........................................................................................7

HIPPOLYTUS.............................................................................................................9

THE BACCHAE...............................................................................................................77

PERSONS REPRESENTED.......................................................................................79

THE BACCHAE........................................................................................................81

GLOSSARY...................................................................................................................153

Euripides 1

PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR

Designed for school districts, educators, and students seeking to maximize performance on
standardized tests, Webster’s paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently
assigned readings in English courses. By using a running thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this
edition of Hippolytus & The Bacchae by Euripides was edited for students who are actively
building their vocabularies in anticipation of taking PSAT®, SAT®, AP® (Advanced Placement®),
GRE®, LSAT®, GMAT® or similar examinations.1

Webster’s edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of
synonyms and antonyms for difficult and often ambiguous English words that are encountered in
other works of literature, conversation, or academic examinations. Extremely rare or idiosyncratic
words and expressions are given lower priority in the notes compared to words which are “difficult,
and often encountered” in examinations. Rather than supply a single synonym, many are provided
for a variety of meanings, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of the English language,
and avoid using the notes as a pure crutch. Having the reader decipher a word’s meaning within
context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not
already highlighted on previous pages. If a difficult word is not noted on a page, chances are that it
has been highlighted on a previous page. A more complete thesaurus is supplied at the end of the
book; Synonyms and antonyms are extracted from Webster’s Online Dictionary.

Definitions of remaining terms as well as translations can be found at www.websters-online-
dictionary.org. Please send suggestions to [email protected]

The Editor
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College Board which neither sponsors nor endorses this book; GRE®, AP® and Advanced Placement® are
registered trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which neither sponsors nor endorses this book,
GMAT® is a registered trademark of the Graduate Management Admissions Council which is neither affiliated
with this book nor endorses this book, LSAT® is a registered trademark of the Law School Admissions Council
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Euripides 3

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

Euripides, the youngest of the trio of great Greek tragedians was born at
Salamis in 480 B.C., on the day when the Greeks won their momentous naval
victory there over the fleet of the Persians. The precise social status of his parents
is not clear but he received a good education, was early distinguished as an
athlete, and showed talent in painting and oratory. He was a fellow student of
Pericles, and his dramas show the influence of the philosophical ideas of
Anaxagoras and of Socrates, with whom he was personally intimate. Like
Socrates, he was accused of impiety, and this, along with domestic infelicity, has
been supposed to afford a motive for his withdrawal from Athens, first to
Magnesia and later to the court of Anchelaüs in Macedonia where he died in 406
B.C.
The first tragedy of Euripides was produced when he was about twenty-five,
and he was several times a victor in the tragic contests. In spite of the
antagonisms which he aroused and the criticisms which were hurled upon him
in, for example, the comedies of Aristophanes, he attained a very great
popularity; and Plutarch tells that those Athenians who were taken captive in the
disastrous Sicilian expedition of 413 B.C. were offered freedom by their captors if
they could recite from the works of Euripides. Of the hundred and twenty
dramas ascribed to Euripides, there have come down to us complete eighteen
tragedies and one satyric drama, "Cyclops," beside numerous fragments.
The works of Euripides are generally regarded as showing the beginning of
the decline of Greek tragedy. The idea of Fate hitherto dominant in the plays of
his predecessors, tends to be degraded by him into mere chance; the characters
lose much of their ideal quality; and even gods and heroes are represented as
moved by the petty motives of ordinary humanity. The chorus is often quite
detached from the action; the poetry is florid; and the action is frequently tinged
with sensationalism. In spite of all this, Euripides remains a great poet; and his
picturesqueness and tendencies to what are now called realism and romanticism,
while marking his inferiority to the chaste classicism of Sophocles, bring him
more easily within the sympathetic interest of the modern reader.

Euripides 5

HIPPOLYTUS