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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.
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