Crossword-Solution: EURIPEDES 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Fragment #3—Scholiast on Euripedes, Andromache 10: The Cyclic poet who composed the _Sack_ says that Astyanax was also hurled from the city wall.

Fragment #4—Scholiast on Euripedes, Troades 31: For the followers of Acamus and Demophon took no share—it is said—of the spoils, but only Aethra, for whose sake, indeed, they came to Ilium with Menestheus to lead them.

Says Euripedes: "A friend Wedded into our life is more to us Than twice five thousand kinsman one in blood." Such was the friendship of Ruth and Naomi.

Could such a play as the "Suppliants" of Euripedes find any aesthetic justification, save that it has the one dramatic essential--confrontation, balance of emotions? The very scenes of short speeches, of objurgation or sententious repartee, which cannot but have for us an element of the grotesque, must have been as pleasing as they were to the Greek audience, from the fact that they brought to sharpest vision the confrontation of the two antagonists.

The Professor led the conversation to her favourite topic: ancient Greek literature, but this only inspired her to quote the discouraging opinion of the _Medea_ of Euripedes.