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ofAristophanes and MenanderR A N D O M H O U S E  \nTHE COMPLETE GREEK DRAMA  \nTHE  \nComplete Greek Drama  \nALL THE EXT ANT TRAGEDIES OF AESCHYLUS,SOPHOCLES AND EURIPIDES,AND THECOMEDIES OF ARISTOPHANES ANDMENANDER,IN A VARIETY OFTRANSLATIONS  \nEDITED BYWHITNEY J.OATES  \nAND  \nEUGENE O'NEILL,JR.  \nIN TWO VOLUMES1VOLUME ONE  \nRANDOM HOUSE·NEW YORK  \ncoPYRIGHT·I938·BY RANDOM HOUSE·InCORPORAFE1)  \nFrrst Edition₂  \n# ACKNOWLEDGMENTS\n\nFoR permission to reprint copyrighted translations in these volumes,theeditors wish to make the following acknowledgments:  \nTo Oxford University Press for Gilbert Murray's translations of TheTrojan Women,Rhesus and The Frogs;for F.M.Stawell's translationof Iphigenia in Aulis.  \nTo Longmans,Green and Co.for Gilbert Murray's translation ofThe Bacchae.  \nTo Mrs.Harry Fine for Paul Elmer More's translation of Prome-theus Bound.  \nTo L.A.Post for his introductions and translations of The Girl fromSamos,The Arbitration and The Shearing of Glycera.  \n# PREFACE\n\nTHE aim of the present publication is to give English readers in a singlebook the complete corpus of the extant Greek drama.The plays them-selves have been in the past available only in individual translations,orin translations of single dramatists,or in translations of a few playsselected from the total number that has survived.The editors have en-deavoured to choose the best available translation for each individualplay.In some instances they were faced with an embarrassment of riches,while in others they were constrained to include a version with whichthey were somewhat dissatisfied,yet which clearly seemed to be superiorto the other renderings at their disposal.The main criteria for determin-ing the value of a particular version were these:essential correspondenceto the Greek original considered as a whole,plus as close fidelity as pos-sible to the original in specific detail.Whether the version was in proseor verse was not made a primary consideration in the process of selection,but careful observance of the main criteria resulted in collecting a groupof translations,thirty of which are in prose,fifteen in verse,and two ina combination of prose and verse.The variety of translations shouldenable the reader to obtain a belter conception of the originals thanwould be possible if all the versions were from a single hand,howeverdexterous.  \nEvery effort has been made to impress upon the reader the extremeimportance of the musical element in the Greek plays.To accomplishthis end,all choral or singing passages in the prose versions have beenindented,and broken up into their various choric constituents.Likewise,speeches which are atributed to the Chorus in the manuscripts,if theyare written in the regular metre of the dialogue passages,have been as-signed to the Leader of the Chorus,who thus becomes almost anothermember of the cast.Furthermore,all passages which were sung orchanted,so far as can be determined by their metre in the original,havebeen so 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