2 James T. Lees, 



There is still an important and interesting field of inves- 

 tigation which remains practically untouched. We lack a 

 thorough and scientific treatment of the influence of Greek 

 oratory on the Greek drama, and vice versa. We find a few 

 pages here and there in some of the histories of Greek litera- 

 ture which treat of this influence in a more or less cursory 

 manner, but we have not as yet a comprehensive work on 

 this subject which can be placed beside the works of Blass 

 and Jebb on Attic oratory. It is hoped that the present 

 article may furnish a contribution, however slight, to our 

 knowledge upon that subject, and may be of some assistance 

 in leading the way to a full investigation of the whole field of 

 Greek tragedy and oratory in their influence upon each other. 



This paper is a rhetorical study of the long speeches in 

 Euripides. The investigation was suggested by a passage 

 in Aristophanes, Eirene, 533, 534: 



ov 'yap ySerai 

 avrrj ttoltjtt] prj /jLCLt tcov 8ik av c kmv. 



The TToirjTij^; referred to is Euripides. 



We may compare this statement with the words of the 

 same critic in Batrachoi, 771 f g. : 



ore Srj KarrfkO^ ^v p l'tt ihrj'^^ iireheiKW to 

 Tol<; XcoTToSurat? Kal rolai ^aXkavnoro/xoi'i 

 Kat rolai TrarpaXoLaicn Kal TOf)(^a)pvyoi<;, 

 oirep ear ev '^AcSov 7rA,?}^o?, 01 S' aKpoMjjbevoi 

 TOiV avTiXoy t(t)V Kal Xvy la /hmv Kal ar po^oiv 

 virepe/xdvrjaav.) Kavofxiaav aoc^oirarov. 



We may also compare Aristotle, De Arte Poetica, 6. 1450b. 



"PX'^ t^^^ ^^^ '^'^1' otov yjrvxh o /jLvdo<i rfj<; Tpaycphla'^, Sev- 

 Tepov Se TO. 7]dr). ecrnv yap fxi/jLr]ai<i irpd^eaxi Kal Slo, ravTTjv 

 fj-aXiara TMV TrpaTTOVTCov. rpcrov Se y Btdvoia. TovroSiiariv 

 TO Xeyeiv hvuaadaL ra ivovra Kal ra apfiorrovra, oirep [eVf 

 TOiV Xuyoiv'] Tri<; ir oXlt i Kr)<i Kal p7]ToptKrjs; epyov errriv • 

 01 fiev yap dp'^aloi ttoXlt lkw<; eiroiovv XeyovTa<;^ 

 ol Se vvv prjTO pLK o)<;. 



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