Huddilston, John H.: The attitude of the Greek tragedians toward art (London, 1898)

The Attitude of the Greek

should not forget that Euripides in the Ion
(v. 1570) brings Athena in on a quadriga, as
does also Aischylos in the Eumenides, v. 405.

On each of the fifty Boeotian vessels the stern
piece was a Kadmos with a golden dragon.
Gerenian Nestor and his followers had for their
emblem the river-god Alpheus in a bull's form.
The definiteness with which these signs are
named gives an air of reality to them. While
no doubt arbitrarily selected for their place,
they are of interest as showing that Euripides
did not permit the opportunity to pass without
contriving extensive and picturesque monu-
ments.

3. Painting.

Reference has already been made to the tradi-
tion that Euripides was in early life a painter.
The rejection of this story as well as other
details of his biography is not a healthy policy
in philological criticism, and cannot be produc-
tive of any better understanding of the poet.
On the contrary, when one holds to Euripides
the painter, he has much to assist him in account-
ing for the work of Euripides the poet. How-

in 18. Halle sches Winckelmannsprogram, uses this picture in re-
storing the Battle of Marathon in the Stoa Poikile.