希波吕托斯__EURIPIDES.pdf

英文名著3000 本 420 BC HIPPOLYTUS by Euripides translated by E. P. Coleridge 1 英文名著3000 本 CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY APHRODITE HIPPOLYTUS, bastard son of THESEUS ATTENDANTS OF HIPPOLYTUS CHORUS OF TROEZENIAN WOMEN 4 NURSE OF PHAEDRA PHAEDRA, wife of THESEUS THESEUS MESSENGER ARTEMIS 2 英文名著3000 本 HIPPOLYTUS HIPPOLYTUS (SCENE:-Before the royal palace at Troezen. There is a statue of APHRODITE on one side; on the other, a statue of ARTEMIS. There is an altar before each image. The goddess APHRODITE appears alone.) APHRODITE WIDE oer man my realm extends, and proud the name that I, the goddess Cypris, bear, both in heavens courts and mongst all those who dwell within the limits of the sea and the bounds of Atlas,beholding the sun-gods light; those that respect my power I advance to honour, but bring to ruin all who vaunt themselves at me. For even in the race of gods this feeling finds a home, even pleasure 3 英文名著3000 本 at the honour men pay them. And the truth of this I soon will show; for that son of Theseus, born of the Amazon, Hippolytus, whom holy Pittheus taught, alone of all the dwellers in this land of Troezen,calls me vilest of the deities. Love he scorns, and, as for marriage, will none of it; but Artemis, daughter of Zeus, sister of Phoebus, he doth honour, counting her the chief of goddesses, and ever through the greenwood, attendant on his virgin goddess, he clears the earth of wild beasts with his