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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: sister at home found hers, it may be, in Nausicaa. It was for
this, that when perhaps the most complete and exquisite of all the
Greeks, Sophocles the good, beloved by gods and men, represented
on the Athenian stage his drama of Nausicaa, and, as usual, could
not--for he had no voice--himself take a speaking part, he was
content to do one thing in which he specially excelled; and
dressed and masked as a girl, to play at ball amid the chorus of
Nausicaa's maidens.
That drama of Nausicaa is lost; and if I dare say so of any play
of Sophocles', I scarce regret it. It is well, perhaps, that we
have no second conception of the scene, to interfere with the
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