The Origin of Tragedy With Special Reference to the Greek Tragedians
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Prof. Mahaffy 5 says that " we must cast aside the nonsense talked by Horace of his (Thespis) being a strolling player, going about in a cart to fairs and markets," and he holds that "an acquaintance with the mysteries and deeper theology of the day suggested to Thespis the representation of human sorrow for a moral purpose," and that "with Thespis may have arisen the great conception, which we see full-blown in Aeschylus — the in- tention of the drama to purify human sympathy by exercising it ...on great and apparently disproportioned afflictions of heroic 1 Solon 29. 2 in, 56. 3 s.v. Thespis : Kal trpurov fiev xp^as rb irpbffwirov iptmxvdlip iTpayipdrfffeif, elra AvSpax"V iffKiiraaev iv t
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