Play by Euripides. It is in GB Volume 5. Newsletter post: https://www.readgreatbooks.info/p/great-books-ep-80-euripides-heracleidae
Heracleidae
Metadata
- Author: Euripides
- Full Title: Heracleidae
- Category:booksplays
- Summary: Heracleidae is a play by Euripides that tells the story of the descendants of Hercules. They seek refuge from their enemies after the death of their father. The play explores themes of loyalty, survival, and the quest for identity.
- URL: https://readwise.io/reader/document_raw_content/213139921
People in the play
- Iolaus, Servant, of Hyllus, Copreus, Alcmena, Demophon, Messenger, Macaria, Eurystheus, Chorus of Aged Athenians.
Highlights
- Surely thou wilt get an evil name from the citizens, if for the sake of an old man with one foot in the grave, a mere shadow I may say, and for these children, thou wilt plunge into troublous waters. (View Highlight)
- excessive praise is apt to breed disgust; (View Highlight)
- A temple of the gods is an asylum open to the world. (View Highlight)
- Children have no fairer prize than this, the being born of a good and noble sire, and the power to wed from noble families; (View Highlight)
- whoso is enslaved by passion and makes a lowborn match, I cannot praise for leaving to his children a legacy of shame, to gratify himself. (View Highlight)
- For noble birth offers a stouter resistance to adversity than base parentage (View Highlight)
- the man who thinks he knows good generalship must see the foe not by messengers alone. (View Highlight)
- Now I, though in your cause I am as zealous as thou seest, yet will not slay my child, nor will I compel any of my subjects to do so against his will; (View Highlight)
- Why, cruel hope, didst thou then cheer my heart, though thou didst not mean to make the boon complete? (View Highlight)
- wise men ought to pray to get a wise man for their foe, and not a proud senseless fool; for so, even if by fortune flouted, one would meet with much consideration. (View Highlight)
- Without the will of heaven none is blest, none curst, I do maintain; nor doth the same house for ever tread the path of bliss; for one kind of fortune follows hard upon another; one man it brings to naught from his high estate, another though of no account it crowns with happiness. (View Highlight)
- bear what heaven sends, and set a limit to thy soul’s grief; (View Highlight)
- virtue’s path leads through troublous ways. (View Highlight)
- Mere looks can wound no one, if the arm do naught. (View Highlight)
- For numerous is the offspring of Fate, that bringeth all to pass, and of Time, the son of Cronos. (View Highlight)