AbstractsPhilosophy & Theology

The plays of Euripides have led to far more discussion concerning their merit and interpretation than those of either Sophocles or Aeschylus. Controversies have especially been provoked by his expression of religious thought, for in this respect he at times appears to be exceedingly radical. A consideration of this side of his writing will become an essential part of the following dissertation. The present topic chosen can include, according to definition, a wide range of material, since the general meaning for aetiology is given in the Oxford Dictionary as "the assignment of causes." But the particular application to be considered chiefly will be the many attempts at scientific explanations of the names of peoples and places, and of customs. [...]