Excerpt from Theatre of the Greeks, Containing, in a Compendious Form, a Great Body of Information Relative to the Rise, Progress, and Exhibition of the Drama: Together With an Account of Dramatic Writers From Thespis to Menander; To Which Is Added, a Chronology and an Appendix, Containing Critical Remarks, by Porson, Elmsley, and Others There remains the third difference - twat of the manner in which each of these objects may be imitated. For the Poet, imitating the same object, and by the same means, may do it either in narration - and that, again, either personating other characters, as Homer does, or, in his own erson through out, without change - or, he may imitate by representing his characters as real, and eniployed in the very action itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.