What the Greeks only suspected we know well; what their Aeschylus imagined our nursery children feel.

希腊人只是猜想的东西，我们已了解得一清二楚；他们的埃斯库罗斯想像出的东西，我们襁褓中的孩子就已经感觉到了。

Aeschylus will have the stage first.

而这只是暖身操。

Now, Aeschylus frequently competes at this festival, the city Dionysia.

上次比赛 索福克勒斯以些微之差赢了他。

This is an opera in seven parts, based on the trilogy of ancient Greek tragedies by Aeschylus.

这是分为七部分的歌剧，基于埃斯库罗斯所写的古希腊悲剧三部曲。

This preface quotes a passage from The Libation Bearers, by Aeschylus.

这篇序言引用了埃斯库罗斯 (Aeschylus) 的《祭酒人》中的一段话。

Aeschylus is relying on the two individuals to tell the story.

这绝对是前所未闻。

Dionysos, after some deliberation, decides in favor of Aeschylus and dumps Euripides back into Hades.

狄俄尼索斯经过一番深思熟虑，决定支持埃斯库罗斯， 并将欧里庇得斯扔回阴间。

Some of the great Greek playwrights – such as Aeschylus and Sophocles, Euripides – wrote tragedies.

一些伟大的希腊剧作家——如埃斯库罗斯、索福克勒斯、欧里庇得斯——写过悲剧。

Among the tragedians, there are extant works from only three: Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.

在悲剧作家中，现存的作品只有三位：埃斯库罗斯、索福克勒斯和欧里庇得斯。

But it destroyed many of the works of Aristotle, Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles and countless other ancient astronomers, mathematicians, poets, playwrights and philosophers.

但它烧毁了很多亚里士多德、埃斯库罗斯、欧力比德斯、索福克勒斯（希望人名木有查错）以及其他无数古代天文学家、数学家、诗人、剧作家和哲学家的著作。

I bought tickets for two performances: " Antigone, " by Sophocles, and " Agamemnon, " by Aeschylus.

我买了两场演出的票：索福克勒斯的《安提戈涅》和埃斯库罗斯的《阿伽门农》。

As Simon Goldhill shows, Euripides directly parodies Aeschylus.

正如西蒙戈德希尔所展示的那样， 欧里庇得斯直接戏仿了埃斯库罗斯。

He was an ancient Greek, one of the big three of Greek tragedy, along with Aeschylus and

他是古希腊人，与埃斯库罗斯、希腊悲剧三巨头之一。

Eventually, scales are brought onstage and the lines of Aeschylus and Euripides are weighed for their literary and moral heft.

最终，天平被带到舞台上， 埃斯库罗斯和欧里庇得斯的台词因其文学和道德的重要性而受到权衡。

In fact, one of his most famous plays was retelling the story of a famous Greek tragedy from Aeschylus' Oresteia plays.

事实上，他最著名的戏剧之一是重述埃斯库罗斯 (Aeschylus) 的奥瑞斯忒亚 (Oresteia) 戏剧中的著名希腊悲剧故事。

Against what is seen as the democratic decay of tragedy in Euripides, Aeschylus's drama will restore the heroic virtue of the Athenians and give them back some proper patriotism.

与欧里庇得斯悲剧的民主衰败相反，埃斯库罗斯的戏剧将恢复雅典人的英雄美德， 并给他们一些适当的爱国主义。

Aeschylus looked at the story of Agamemnon and saw a parable of human grandiosity and tragic katharsis, leading through bloodshed and strife to an eventual restoration of civilized order.

埃斯库罗斯 (Aeschylus) 看了阿伽门农 (Agamemnon) 的故事， 看到了一个关于人类宏大和悲剧性宣泄的寓言，通过流血和冲突导致文明秩序的最终恢复。

In Aeschylus, Orestes doubts the legitimacy of his action in killing his mother, and turns to Pylades, who, in his only line in the play, reassures Orestes that Apollo has ordained the act.

在埃斯库罗斯 (Aeschylus) 中， 俄瑞斯忒斯 (Orestes) 怀疑他杀死母亲的行为的合法性，并求助于皮拉德斯 (Pylades)， 皮拉德斯在剧中唯一的台词中向俄瑞斯忒斯保证，阿波罗已命定了这一行为。

We might, however, speculate that the foremost  influence on him throughout his education were the great Greek playwrights, Aeschylus, Sophocles,   Aristophanes and Euripides and the Roman comic and tragic playwrights Plautus, Terence and Seneca.

然而，我们可以推测，在他的整个教育过程中对他影响最大的是伟大的希腊剧作家埃斯库罗斯、索福克勒斯、阿里斯托芬和欧里庇得斯，以及罗马喜剧和悲剧剧作家普劳图斯、特伦斯和塞内卡。

Aristotle is writing in the second half of the fourth century after a long period when much more prominence had been given to actors than the kind of citizen-soldiers who took part in the original productions of Aeschylus.

亚里士多德是在 4 世纪下半叶写作的， 当时的演员比参与埃斯库罗斯 (Aeschylus) 原创作品的那种公民士兵更受重视。