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22 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Somewhat stained binding, pencil annotation on first page, otherwise good and clean. / Etwas angeschmutzter Einband, Bleistiftanmerkung auf erster Seite, sonst gut und sauber. - In the year 415 B.C. the citizens of Athens sent a large army against the city of Syracuse in Sicily. Early in that year the Athenian playwright Euripides had presented a play which showed what the capture of a city might be like. That play is The Trojan Women. Most of you have seen it or read it and therefore have experienced Euripides evocation of how it feels to be conquered. You remember also how at the opening of the play we see the gods planning to punish the conquerors. In the course of the action we never see this punishment: we merely know that when the Greeks have finished doing what we see them doing to Troy in the play, most of them will be destroyed themselves. To put it briefly, Euripides chose the occasion of the Sicilian Expedition to show what he thought about military conquest. Among other things, he was against it. But as it turned out the Athenians rejected his implied warning. They showed their disapproval by awarding The Trojan Women only the second prize, and within a month or two the mighty armada sailed for Syracuse. - George E. Dimock, Jr., Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures, came to Smith in 1955 from Yale University where he had been a member of the faculty since 1948. In 1949 he received the Ph.D. from Yale, where he had previously earned the B.A. and M.A. degrees. Since coming to Smith, Mr. Dimock has been the recipient of two fellowships: the American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship in 1960-61, and the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1964. His publications include articles in the Hudson Review, Yale Review, Yale Classical Studies, American Journal of Philology, and Arion. He contributed articles on Odysseus, Prometheus, Pelops, Hippolytus, Hesperides, and Erechtheus to the Encyclopedia Britannica, and has recorded lectures on the Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid for Everett/Edwards Inc. A translation with W. S. Merwin of Euripides Iphigeneia at Aulis will be published in the summer of 1977. Mr. Dimock is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the American Philological Association, the Classical Association of New England, and the Archeological Institute of America. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.
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