DR. SHOREY ON EURIPIDES

Dr. Paul Shorey '78, Ph.D., LL.D., professor of Greek at the University of Chicago, delivered the third of the Lane lectures on "Life and Letters at Athens" in Emerson D yesterday evening, taking as his subject "The Case of Euripides." Dr. Shorey discussed the Case of Euripides, giving a criticism of Euripides as a thinker, a dramatist and a poet.

The melodrama which Euripides infused into Greek life made him known as an iconoclast and prophet of a new thought. But it is the difficulties encountered in the translation of his works that leads to the charge of pedantry against him. Euripides as a thinker shows that he had not attained unity and harmony in himself although he had a nicety of observation and epithet. As a dramatist his technique is beyond our scope. As a poet he had many faults, but he had great poetical magic.