To goals unexpected
Heav'n points out a passage.
And this is the end of the matter.
[1] The quotations are from Potter's Translation, in Routledge's
Universal Library, freely altered in parts for the purpose of bringing
out changes of metre, etc., in the original. The References are to the
numbering of the lines in Potter.
[2] That is, a scene carried on upon the Stage without the presence of
the Chorus in the Orchestra,--a very rare effect in Greek Drama.
[3] The fact was that the _Alcestis_ was represented in place of a
'Satyric Drama,' which only allowed two (speaking) personages on the
Stage at the same time.
THE CYCLOPS OF EURIPIDES
A SPECIMEN OF THE SATYRIC DRAMA
_Scene_: Sicily, in front of cave of the Cyclops, Polyphemus.
_Prologue_ by Silenus, the rural demi-god, who recounts his faithful
service to Bacchus, and yet the ungrateful god has let himself and his
children fall into this slavery to the horrid Cyclops Polyphemus,
where, worst of their many woes, they are debarred from the wine they
worship.
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