THE TRAGIC INNOVATIONS OF SOPHOCLES & EURIPIDES

'Death of Pentheus'. Detail from an Attic red-figure clay vase c.480 BC. New York, Market. Christie's © Christies's

Pages by Mrs. D

"One of the most admirable things about history is, that almost as a rule, we get as much information out of what it does not say as we get out of what it does say. . . . History is a frog; half of it is submerged, but he knows it is there, and he knows the shape of it."

"The Secret History of Eddypus", Mark Twain