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NOTES FOR HECUBA<br />

<strong>THE</strong> translation of Coleridge has been slightly modified in the following<br />

lines: 193, 424, 608, 614, 710, 874, 901, 903, 1028, 1038, 1040, 1113,<br />

1137,1146,1237.<br />

1. This episode is in part recorded in <strong>Home</strong>r's Odyssey, IV, 240 ff.<br />

2. These lines reflect the growing importance of rhetoric in Athens at<br />

the time when the Hecuba was first produced. Plato, although he was<br />

writing somewhat later, has much to say of the "art of persuasion."<br />

3. The transformation and death of Hecuba were traditionally connected<br />

with the name of a promontory in the Thracian Chersonese,<br />

Cynossema.

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