Excerpt from The Chronograms of the Euripidean Dramas If the charge of illiteracy brought against Heraclides was not wholly unreasonable, the practice with which it deals must have been one known to the experts in tragedy. If Diogenes were right in supposing that the name which was to be found was that of some other person than the author, Heraclides would have been justified in rejecting this evidence; and ignorance of the private affairs of Dionysius or Spintharus could not count as illiteracy. Probably Diogenes was misled by the story of the manner wherein Phidias had signed the statue of Olympian Zeus.1 The charge was not unreasonable if dramatists regularly signed their works in a certain way, and the expert knew where to look for the signature. The suppo sition that its presence might be accidental would only be made by one who was unacquainted with the practice. 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.