Book of illustrations is a trilogy and a classic Greek Tragedy by Euripides. Euripides was a tragedian of old Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three archaic Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived the passage of time through the ages. Excerpt:

"All her prayers and eager callings

On the tender name of Father,

All her young and maiden freshness,

They but set at naught, those rulers,

In their passion for the battle.

And her father gave commandment

To the servants of the Goddess,

When the prayer was o'er, to lift her,

Like a kid, above the altar,

In her garments wrapt, face downwards,—

Yea, to seize with all their courage,

And that o'er her lips of beauty

Should be set a watch to hinder

Words of curse against the houses,

With the gag's strength silence-working."