| 单词 | Aeschylus |
| 例句 | In 458 BC, a few decades after Pythagoras’s death, the playwright Aeschylus used this odd logic to provide one of history’s most extraordinary legal defenses of matricide. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It is the subject of one of Aeschylus’ plays and one of Euripides’. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z With the exception of the story of Prometheus’ punishment, told by Aeschylus in the fifth century, I have taken the material of this chapter chiefly from Hesiod, who lived at least three hundred years earlier. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Ptolemy III Euergetes wished to borrow from Athens the original manuscripts or official state copies of the great ancient tragedies of Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z After extensive negotiations, the king convinced the government of Athens to lend him what amounted to state treasures: the definitive editions of the plays of the three great dramatists: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The materials for this story are taken from two poets, the Greek Aeschylus and the Roman Ovid, separated from each other by four hundred and fifty years and still more by their gifts and temperaments. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Except for Aeschylus’ Persians, written to celebrate the victory of the Greeks over the Persians at Salamis, all the plays have mythological subjects. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Clytemnestra would fade beside her if there had been a Norse Aeschylus to write her story. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Aeschylus tells the tale splendidly, but in his hands it is a stirring martial poem. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The central theme of Aeschylus’s Eumenides is the trial of Orestes, the prince of Argos, for the murder of his mother, Clytemnestra. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It is easy to distinguish the parts told by each, Aeschylus grave and direct, Ovid light and amusing. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Aeschylus, the oldest of the three tragic poets, was a contemporary of Pindar’s. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z How long it held the stage we do not know, but the next account we have, centuries later, written by Aeschylus about 450 B.C., is very different. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as the greatest plays of Aeschylus, in the fifth century, are about Atreus’ descendants, so the greatest plays of his contemporary Sophocles are about Oedipus and his children. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z These Danaïds are the subject of one of the plays of Aeschylus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Similar numbers apply to the works of Aeschylus and Euripides. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z During that time Mr. Sater became enamored of the tragedies of Aeschylus, whom he calls the first “radical playwright,” the first to write largely about tyranny and oppression. He May Be Bound, but This Prometheus Still Manages to Rock 2011-03-07T22:46:22Z The Theater of War project, founded in 2008, presents readings of Greek tragedies by Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides to military veterans. Sunday Reading: Veterans’ Stories 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z And far from feeling constrained by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, Tóibín ventures into the lacunae of the old legends and pumps blood even into the silent figures of Greek tragedy. Colm Tóibín’s ‘House of Names’ gives voice to a furious mother 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z And at Washington’s Shakespeare Theatre, Michael Kahn’s final production after 33 years as artistic director was a new rendering of Aeschylus’s “Oresteia” trilogy, spare and strong, by the playwright and actress Ellen McLaughlin. Perspective | Women give voice to a male canon. It happens to be ancient Greek. 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Robert Icke’s fraught and gripping “Oresteia,” an emotionally harrowing retelling of Aeschylus’ trilogy at the Park Avenue Armory, doesn’t get bogged down in such background details of ancient mythology. ‘Oresteia’ Review: A Mother’s Grief, Underestimated 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Aeschylus fought the Persians and his play has variously been read as a critique of war, a celebration of victory, a mockery of defeated enemy. The Persians 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z The primal fears and tears elicited by Aeschylus and his ilk are evidently speaking loudly to latter-day play makers. London Theater Journal: The Greeks All Over Again 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z Aeschylus, in particular, had a special place in Bacon’s life. Francis Bacon Read Just as He Painted: Deep, Dark and Bleak 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Four black rights groups staged the protest Monday against a performance of “The Suppliants” by ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus, arguing the masks promote racist stereotypes. France faces blackface debate after Greek play blockaded 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Mr Icke’s version of “Oresteia” by Aeschylus is described as “a new adaptation”, but classics scholars insist that it is much more than that. A new take on Greek tragedy 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Using Aeschylus’ “Oresteia” as a template, O’Neill begins “Mourning” just as the Civil War ends. Review: ‘Mourning Becomes Electra,’ Up Close and Powerful 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z This is Aeschylus, utterly remorseless, astonishing and subversive. Shedunnit – how Agatha Christie became cinema hot property 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Photograph: Mark Douet/National Theatre Wales Two summers ago, National Theatre Wales stunned us with a version of Aeschylus's The Persians set in a military training camp. Coriolan/us – review 2012-08-10T17:08:20Z What might Aeschylus say about the European refugee crisis? Shakespeare meets the Beatles in lively 'These Paper Bullets!' 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z The girls today in society Go for classical poetry, So to win their hearts one must quote with ease Aeschylus and Euripides. The Shakespeare film canon 2010-12-11T01:30:00Z Mr. Mee’s “Big Love” is also a modern retelling of a classic, “The Danaids” by Aeschylus, about brides fleeing their intendeds; the production will start in February. ArtsBeat: Signature Theater Season to Spotlight A.R. Gurney and Naomi Wallace 2014-03-25T15:53:03Z There have likely been readings since Aeschylus first showed up at a rehearsal hall with a giant chalice of coffee to watch actors stumble through “The Oresteia.” In Virtual Readings, Less (a Lot Less) Is Sometimes More 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z Nietzsche's heroes were Aeschylus and Sophocles, whose characters are mythic beings. Ragnar?k: the doom of the gods 2011-08-05T21:55:10Z At one point The New York Times described it as “the nonplay that is a pastiche of lines from Shakespeare, Aeschylus, 1930s movies, grand opera, TV commercials and comic books, in no apparent order.” John Vaccaro, Iconoclastic Director, Dies at 86 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z The National Theatre of Greece will be performing “The Persians” by ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus for Saturday’s live-streamed show. AP PHOTOS: Ancient Greek theaters return to life in pandemic 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z The moral of the story, as written by Aeschylus eight years later: “Never, being mortal, ought we cast our thoughts too high.” ‘On Grand Strategy’ Review: The War Against Decline and Fall 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z A history of the red carpet, from Aeschylus to Joan Rivers. The Evolution of Red-Carpet Politics 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z This version of “Iphigenia in Aulis” revises the final scene in a way that seems more beholden to the tradition of the story followed by Aeschylus and Sophocles. 'Iphigenia in Aulis' at Getty Villa: Chasing the ever-elusive Euripides 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z It has produced Euripides’ “The Bacchae” in rural communities affected by the opioid crisis, “The Madness of Heracles” in neighborhoods afflicted by gun violence and gang wars, and Aeschylus’ “Prometheus Bound” in prisons. Front-line nurses star in online staging of play ‘Antigone’ 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z As recounted in plays by Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles, Electra’s mother, Clytemnestra, murders her husband as revenge for him killing another of their daughters many years earlier. A Director Brings Cerebral, Sexy Style to Opera Classics 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z The nearly-four-hour play, an expansive adaptation of Aeschylus’ trilogy, was comparatively light on violence despite it being a tale of sacrifice and revenge. The Theater at War 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z Sartre's play reworks the Electra myth from Aeschylus and Euripides, but we knew, or thought we knew, that it was based on the activities of the French resistance in Paris during the war. Once upon a life: Margaret Drabble 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z His influences were Nietzsche and Aeschylus; his mode, “exhilarated despair.” New ‘Revelations’ in the Life of Francis Bacon, a Master of Darkness and Distortion 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z It dates back to Aeschylus—and its future. The Evolution of Red-Carpet Politics 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z These are things that Aeschylus would have written about or Shakespeare would have written about. Reactions to Academy Awards nominations 2011-01-25T16:04:15Z They were set out 2,000 years ago by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. When will Nicholas Sparks stop making girls cry? 2010-04-22T21:05:00Z Works such as Aeschylus's Oresteia are, in effect, sequels to Homer. King Priam, a pacifist's opera, can still shed light on the trauma of war 2012-05-24T09:32:34Z Of Gods and Men is a modern tragedy that doesn't require the audience to share its belief any more than something by Aeschylus. Of Gods and Men ? review 2010-12-02T15:00:00Z In the Romantic era, Shelley rewrote one of Aeschylus' plays to draw attention to the Greek war of independence; The Odyssey gave Joyce the template for a masterpiece of 20th-century modernism. 'Clash of the Titans': Ancient Greece and Us 2010-03-19T20:01:00Z The O’Neill work is based in turn on “The Oresteia,” the Aeschylus tragedy about the sanguinary curse on the House of Atreus. Marvin David Levy, Opera Composer Who Became a Felon, Is Dead at 82 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z Here, they have scored a coup, placing Aeschylus's great tragedy of war on the edge of the Epynt hills in Cilieni, a mock-up village where today's troops train for urban warfare. The Persians 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z "We need to approach the warrior class with humility, not moral sanctimony," Doerries, who has translated plays by Sophocles and Aeschylus into English, said in an interview. 'Theater of War' evokes eternal truths of battlefield in reading by David Strathairn, Alfred Molina and Heather Goldenhersh 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Perhaps exhausted by all the one-man tragedies he had been enduring, Aeschylus decided it was time for some innovation and added a second actor to the mix in 471 B.C. Two-Character Plays Are Highlights of Theater Season 2010-05-08T02:40:00Z Almost twenty-five hundred years ago, Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides wrote tragedies about the human spirit shattered, corrupted, and abused by war. Theatre of War: Sophocles’ Message for American Veterans 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z When I think back to Robert Icke’s production of “Oresteia,” Aeschylus’ trilogy of Greek tragedies about a family that eats itself from the inside out, I think of one moment. 10 Stages and Screens Where I Saw Connection 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z On the other hand, probably avoid Aeschylus's Oresteia or anything by the German dramatist Heinrich von Kleist. How to act: stage stars share their acting tips 2012-11-28T19:30:02Z The Persians by the Greek playwright Aeschylus, who actually fought at the Battle of Salamis, imagines the scene in the Persian capital in the wake of the empire’s disastrous defeat. Zack Snyder and the West Should Stop Killing Ancient Persians 2014-03-10T14:33:58Z Grieve and lament as Target Margin’s five-hour staging of this Eugene O’Neill epic, inspired by Aeschylus’ tragedies and relocated to post-Civil War America, finishes its run. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z The Oresteia New adaptation of Aeschylus' tragic triptych about the ill-fated house of Atreus. L.A. theater openings, Aug. 16-23: 'Assassins,' 'Fences' and more 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Some bemoan the fact that once-revered philosophers like Plato, Aeschylus, Homer and St. Augustine are being tossed aside because their complex, dated ideas just don't resonate with this empowered new generation of kids. Students kickin' the old school in 'Office Hours' 2010-10-01T18:32:00Z American culture has grown fearful of stories like that — more universal ones, more comprehensive ones — but writing them has been the job of artists in wartime since Aeschylus staged “The Persians.” The Role of Art in a Time of War 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z O’Neill may have modeled his historical trilogy “Mourning Becomes Electra” on Aeschylus’ “Oresteia.” Review: ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’ Is a Tempest in a Bourbon Bottle 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Moreover, the LA/IAI series of events lists the play "The Persians," by Aeschylus, at the Getty Villa, as one of its happenings. How L.A.'s Islamic art shows might expand our 'Middle East' vision 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z High up in the Brecon Beacons, in a mock-up village used by the military as a training-base, National Theatre Wales is recreating the oldest extant play in western drama: Aeschylus's The Persians. The Persians 2010-08-13T00:26:00Z The first Waterwell production to draw wide attention in New York was “The Persians,” in 2005, which adapted that ancient Aeschylus play into a postmodern musical satire. From Starry-Eyed to Star 2011-05-01T22:40:59Z Aeschylus introduced the second actor to Greek plays, adding dialogue, conflict, action—in other words, drama—to what had been a primarily lyrical art form. Theater review: 'Satchmo at the Waldorf' at the Wallis Annenberg Center 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Aeschylus’s “The Persians” is considered the oldest surviving Greek play. ‘The Persians’ Review: Aeschylus’s Ancient Portrait of Defeat 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z From Aeschylus' tragedy "The Eumenides," the quote reads: "These are women but I call the Gorgons." Fuseli's 'The Three Witches' comes to the Huntington 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Or, to be precise, the triangle, that multipurpose dramatic configuration that has been in use since the days of Aeschylus. Theater Review: ?Cockfight Play,? Directed by James Macdonald, at the Duke 2012-05-18T02:00:02Z He tried verse, he tried masks; he tried abandoning the play entirely and writing a life of Aeschylus instead. Review: In ‘Drunken With What,’ a Streamlined ‘Mourning Becomes Electra’ 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z It is said merely the thought of them during a performance of Aeschylus' The Eumenides sent women into premature labour. The Furies ? review 2012-02-12T17:49:34Z CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In Aeschylus’ “Prometheus Bound” the title character is punished for stealing fire and giving it to humans. He May Be Bound, but This Prometheus Still Manages to Rock 2011-03-07T22:46:22Z Next August's plan to stage the "Oresteia" trilogy, written by Aeschylus, to a non-paying audience many of whom will probably know little about classical Greek drama, could be the most ambitious project yet. Free drama of popular protest rocks London stage 2011-08-31T12:37:39Z He was a student at Morehouse College during the contested 2000 presidential election and 9/11 – “Boom, boom, boom, as I was discovering Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides,” he says of the arresting news. Why artists become activists: It’s not only the election 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Bacon was known to admire a line from Aeschylus’ “Oresteia”: “The reek of human blood smiles at me.” Art Review: Two Meaty Visions of Flesh and Blood 2011-05-12T21:55:51Z Euripides is more our contemporary than either Aeschylus or Sophocles, but we still have little clue how to meet the demands of his ancient postmodernism. 'Iphigenia in Aulis' at Getty Villa: Chasing the ever-elusive Euripides 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z One is as grim as Aeschylus; the other as frivolous as Feydeau. London Stages, Full of Cheating Hearts 2013-07-18T12:00:01Z He brought philosophy books and plays by Sophocles and Aeschylus with him. A Debut Novelist’s Descent into Darkness 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z She gave lectures on Euripides’ “Hecuba” and Aeschylus’s “Agamemnon” — two tragedies that form the core of the show — and attended rehearsals every day so that the cast could mine her knowledge. An Immersive Show Taps ‘an Oracle’ for a Spin on Greek Myth 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Art and activism are deeply intertwined in his work: As part of his “trilogy of ancient myths,” he rehearsed and filmed part of an adaptation of Aeschylus’ “Oresteia” in Iraq in 2019. ‘Antigone in the Amazon’ Review: The Drama Is Brazil’s Land War 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Michael Kahn will exit the Shakespeare Theatre Company next season by taking on Greek tragedy’s only extant trilogy, “The Oresteia” by Aeschylus. Kahn’s final season to include a rare staging of ‘The Oresteia’ 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z He is delighted to interrogate Charon, the boatman taking him across the Styx, wanting to find out more about what happened in Aeschylus' lost play, Myrmidons. 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z The red carpet traces its origins back to 458 B.C., when it appeared in the Aeschylus play “Agamemnon.” Hey, That Red Carpet Isn’t Red! 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z The theater has been shocking audiences since Clytemnestra hacked Agamemnon to death in Aeschylus' tragedy. 'Taste' and 'Backyard' revel in gore and lack style 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z In 1967 at Yale, he brought in Jonathan Miller to direct Robert Lowell’s radical reworking of Aeschylus’ “Prometheus Bound.” Commentary: Robert Brustein and the double-edged sword of authority in criticism 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z Among the tragedians, there are extant works from only three: Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us About Grief 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z One lesson of history — and of ancient Greek playwrights such as Aeschylus — is that it’s dangerous to become too full of yourself. Liberals, resist self-righteousness | Nicholas D. Kristof 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z How to tell your Aeschylus from your Agamemnon? Opinion | What might ChatGPT do for humanity? The ancient Greeks offer a clue. 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Ghosts have been haunting drama since the early days of Aeschylus. Review: A striking revival of 'Ghosts' at the Odyssey suffers from lack of ensemble cohesion 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z The programming encompasses both original and well-known material, with this summer’s agenda leaning heavily on the classical: a repertory of “Hamlet” and Aeschylus’s “Oresteia” that runs until Aug. 13. Perspective | A New York armory from the Gilded Age is a haven for the cutting edge 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Theater as we know it was born 2,500 years ago with Aeschylus. Perspective | Peter Brook was a dazzling stage explorer of humankind’s complexity 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z In an author’s note, Winslow says that, when he read Aeschylus, “I saw every theme that we treat in modern crime fiction: power, murder, vengeance, corruption, justice and redemption.” Review | Don Winslow is giving up novels for politics. His latest book is a gem. 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z No “Agamemnon” or “The Persians” had Aeschylus not gone to war. Book excerpt: The day Jackie Robinson came home to Dodger Stadium 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z But that’s true as well of so much else we would want that student to encounter, from the “Iliad” and Aeschylus to Shakespeare and the 19th-century novel and beyond. Opinion | We Aren’t Just Watching the Decline of the Oscars. We’re Watching the End of the Movies. 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Aeschylus wrote some misogynous stuff; fortunately for Lee, most are lost. Feedback: Factchecking Desi and Lucy, plus the J.K. Rowling debate 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z Two of the scenes have details not from the familiar account of the Trojan War - Homer's Iliad - but rather a lost version by the heavyweight Greek playwright Aeschylus. Digging for Britain: Secrets of Rutland Roman villa mosaic revealed 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z The most famous work by Aristophanes is “The Frogs,” whose plot centers on a competition between the dead poets Euripides and Aeschylus over whose tragic plays are more inspiring for Athenians. Perspective | Whether it’s a Greek play or an American sitcom, nothing lasts forever 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z Before “Moonstruck,” Ms. Dukakis subsisted as a stage actress, playing classical and modern tragic parts from Aeschylus’ Clytemnestra to Eugene O’Neill’s Mary Tyrone. Olympia Dukakis, late-blooming Oscar winner for ‘Moonstruck,’ dies at 89 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z Before “Moonstruck,” Dukakis subsisted as a stage actress, playing classical and modern tragic parts from Aeschylus’ Clytemnestra to Eugene O’Neill’s Mary Tyrone. Olympia Dukakis, late-blooming Oscar winner for ‘Moonstruck,’ dies at 89 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z At the Sorbonne, activists prevented the staging of a play by Aeschylus to protest the wearing of masks and dark makeup by white actors; elsewhere, some well-known speakers were disinvited following student pressure. Will American Ideas Tear France Apart? Some of Its Leaders Think So 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z As Biden spoke, I thought of words in Ted Hughes’ adaptation of Aeschylus’ “Agamemnon”: “For the eye / That opens towards the grave / Sees the core of things and is prophetic.” Commentary: Presidential inaugurations are theater. What a difference this new cast makes 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z There’s a whole section of the play in which every line that Euripides utters is answered by Aeschylus with the nonsensical phrase “Lost his little bottle of oil.” Perspective | Whether it’s a Greek play or an American sitcom, nothing lasts forever 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z The quotation is from Aeschylus, the ancient Greek playwright, as cited by Robert F. Kennedy upon the death of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The two sides of Joe Biden 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z Golden Ages in the theater are not just a coincidence of lucky births, such as Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides or Marlowe, Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. My dream for theater: Toss the old business model in the dumpster fire of 2020 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z Enough chasing experience, enough money lust, enough craving, or, as Aeschylus understood, enough running after pleasure and ruining your people? California's karmic debt to the world 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z Our president does not, to put it mildly, resemble the tragic heroes familiar from Aeschylus or Shakespeare. Opinion | The Tragedy of Donald Trump 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z The words of the Greek tragedian Aeschylus continue to echo in my mind. Opinion | We missed one chance to open schools safely. Here’s the new, more expensive, option. 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z If there’s a common thread in the divergent art of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, it is in their shared commitment to complexity — to wrestling with contradiction, ambiguity and indeterminacy in matters of the gravest import. A theater critic's letter to his students, past, present and future 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z The gender politics of Aeschylus’ “The Oresteia” may strike us as outdated. My dream for theater: Toss the old business model in the dumpster fire of 2020 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z What separates Sophocles from his ancient Greek rivals, Aeschylus and Euripides, is his genius for character drawing. Oedipus Rex vs. President Trump: Leaders reveal themselves in times of plague 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z For a 2015 book, he selected The 101 Greatest Plays, with choices from Aeschylus through to Mike Bartlett but without room for King Lear – outraging some readers and generating great debate. Guardian theatre critic Michael Billington to step down 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z The video is also the ultimate fusion of high and low culture, like a fatberg sculpted into Michelangelo’s David, or a line from Aeschylus rendered in refrigerator magnets. Why the viral rubber chicken song is actually a masterpiece 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Aeschylus knew, as Fitzgerald knew, that we carry the past with us, and we all must decide how to write the next scene. Opinion | What the theater has taught me about Washington 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z “I couldn’t do what Aeschylus does because we’re not at the dawn of civilization,” McLaughlin says of her optimistic source material, written as Athens flourished in the 5th century B.C. 5 things to know to know about the ‘The Oresteia,’ the seldom-seen fountainhead of drama 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z Demonstrators who picketed the prestigious Paris university to stop actors entering the theatre said the play, The Suppliants by Aeschylus, was being performed with blackface and was offensive. Greek tragedy prompts 'blackface' racism row at Sorbonne 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Aeschylus had a different version of events, attributing the alphabet to Prometheus: writing, like fire, was a gift from the gods. Mary Norris: Greek to Me 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z To Nussbaum, Aeschylus offers a metaphor for how individual passions can be tamed by reason and how collective anger can be converted to the cause of justice. The Perils and Possibilities of Anger 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Fully 2,501 years ago last winter, Aeschylus won the first known literary prize. Stuck inside of Stockholm with the Nobel blues again - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Her “Oresteia” adaptation — which she and Kahn stress is a frequent departure from Aeschylus, with characters added and deleted — seeks a middle ground. 5 things to know to know about the ‘The Oresteia,’ the seldom-seen fountainhead of drama 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z “The Oresteia” is the tragic cycle by Aeschylus that charts the fall of the House of Atreus, a family consumed by an-eye-for-an-eye justice. Perspective | Never been to the Shakespeare Theatre? This is the season you can’t miss. 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z As Virginia Woolf suggests in her remarks on Aeschylus, knowing Greek sometimes takes a leap of intuition. Mary Norris: Greek to Me 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z He moved to New York to start a small, but typically ambitious theater company, starting, despite a shoestring budget, with Aeschylus’ “Oresteia” trilogy. Unorthodox L.A. opera genius Yuval Sharon arrives on the world stage 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z His account of the invention of formalized bankruptcy is fascinating, but then he compares the story of the American Airlines bust, in 2011, to Aeschylus’ great play “Agamemnon.” Can Economists and Humanists Ever Be Friends? 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z A quoter of Aeschylus and Yeats, and heir to his brother’s legacy, RFK spoke of uniting the country, of seeking to “do better.” Opinion | Politics were unimaginable without RFK. Then they were unimaginable with him. 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z The ancient tragedian Aeschylus recalled this era mythically: Prometheus, in stealing fire from the gods, “founded all the arts of men.” Why Silicon Valley can’t fix itself 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z With the US presidential election fast approaching, a leading contender for the Democratic nomination takes the stage in front of thousands of supporters and wows them with the snappy soundbite: “My favorite poet was Aeschylus.” The 'Bobby phenomenon': Netflix doc looks at Robert Kennedy's stellar political rise 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z It’s an interest most explicitly explored in Brooklyn, his breakout novel of 2009, and to which he returns in House of Names, a retelling of The Oresteia by Aeschylus. ‘There is a certain amount of glee at the sheer, sheer foolishness of Brexit’ 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z McDonagh complicates Mildred's story by showing how the lust for justice can grow depraved the longer it is denied — a favorite subject of dramatists going back to Aeschylus. Why 'Three Billboards' and 'Call Me by Your Name' leave this theater critic cold 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z They’re packed with a love of cinema and rock music but rooted in the plays of Aeschylus and Sophocles. Sam Shepard was wild at heart and mapped the American soul 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z The latest promise Toibin has fulfilled is a novel, The House of Names, which retells one of the oldest stories of all: the events of Aeschylus’s Oresteia, the internecine bloodbath in the House of Atreus. Colm Toíbín: Brexit expats, Trump's Irish influence – and the right way to gouge an eye 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z Aeschylus wrote of pain that falls, even in our sleep, drop by drop upon the heart, and of finding wisdom therein. Opinion | U.S. Veterans Use Greek Tragedy to Tell Us About War 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Tóibín taps into the main vein of Greek tragedy here, providing a stunning and intensely satisfying immersion in bloody vengeance that would do Aeschylus proud. Colm Tóibín builds new stories onto a mythic ‘House of Names’ 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z On the other hand, as I reread the versions of the Electra story by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, I found that I heard Electra’s voice too clearly. Colm Tóibín: how I rewrote a Greek tragedy 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z In Aeschylus’ play “Agamemnon,” the titular king’s homecoming from the Trojan War is marked by his vengeful wife Clytemnestra, who offers him a red carpet on which to walk. The red carpet isn't actually red, and other secrets underfoot at the Oscars 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Found on its pages are answers to mysteries from the fate of male anglerfish, the joys of dorodango, and the improbable death of Aeschylus. Study reveals bot-on-bot editing wars raging on Wikipedia's pages 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z We will never find him delivering as mournful a sermon as Bobby Kennedy did upon learning of the death of King, quoting Aeschylus’s poem on “the awful grace of God” to the anguished crowd. Where does Obama rank in American oratory? 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z And, according to Matthew Wright, professor of Greek at the University of Exeter, the works we have by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides are neither necessarily the best plays of their time, nor especially representative. The one where Medea saves her kids: lost classics of Greek tragedy 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z The question then becomes: what is the story, when Wagner drew not only on Teutonic and Norse legends but also on Aeschylus, Shakespeare, Calderón de la Barca, and Schopenhauer? A Weekend of Wagner 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z We are not asking for Aeschylus, and would probably mock his appearance in a speech today, but it would be nice if politicians did not immediately fall into partisan ruts, or post Facebook banalities. In our moment of division, who will lead? 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z My favorite poem, my — my favorite poet was Aeschylus. People Are Sharing This Moving RFK Speech After Dallas Shooting 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z Mycenae’s King Agamemnon, if he actually existed, probably lived in the 14th century B.C., long before Homer sang and Aeschylus wrote of him. Journey through 5,000 years of Greek culture at National Geographic Museum 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Aeschylus’s lost The Myrmidons also appeared to have had sexual and romantic love, between Achilles and Patroclus, at its heart. The one where Medea saves her kids: lost classics of Greek tragedy 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z We have seven each from Aeschylus and Sophocles, who wrote about ninety and a hundred and twenty, respectively. The Quest to Unlock an Ancient Library 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Charles Newell, artistic director of the Court Theater in Chicago, is directing a world premiere translation of Aeschylus' "Agamemnon," replete with themes of blood revenge, cycles of violence and primal human behavior. Sound and Fury, But Little Heart 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z This gorgeous site witnessed the birth of Greek tragedy in the fifth century B.C., when playwrights such as Sophocles and Aeschylus crafted theatrical adaptations of popular, well-known Greek myths. The modern Greek tragedy of financial crisis 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z If I didn’t expect to encounter good news about veterans, I certainly did not expect to encounter an organization in which there was casual discussion about Aeschylus and the Greek tradition of the citizen-soldier. A Navy Seal's PTSD RX: The Great Books 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z That festival gave rise to the careers of the three great tragic playwrights: Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Latest News: Greek Bailout, Cold Weather, the Oscars 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z I made up an opera, which I think would’ve been a good opera, on the play by Aeschylus, “Prometheus Bound.” Conversation on Daydreaming with Jerome L. Singer 2013-12-10T22:45:07.126Z Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. The story behind the hidden number 1,729 2013-10-14T23:36:43Z Why did Athens between 440 and 380 B.C. produce Plato, Socrates, Thucydides, Herodotus, Euripides, Aeschylus and Aristophanes, all in the same place and time? America’s ‘genius cluster’ in sports 2012-06-29T18:21:33Z Prometheus’ reed, or marthex, in which he conveyed fire to “wretched mortals,” as Aeschylus tells us, is a well-known fable. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z His edition of Aeschylus was published after his death in 1852. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z I thank Homer and Aeschylus, and I thank Shakespeare above them all. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z It is, after all, the ancient Greek dramatist Aeschylus who declared that in war, the first casualty is truth. At War Blog: An Officer and a Whistle-Blower 2012-02-05T20:30:33Z Equally remote from the ordinary experience and emotions of a Roman would be the feeling of awe, gloom, and mystery, diffused through the great thoughts and imaginations of Aeschylus. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z He also was the subject of a lost drama of Aeschylus. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z I vented my dislike of Paley’s horribly prosaic translations in his notes on Aeschylus, and he said he had always used Blomfield, he found his Glossary such a help. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z As Aeschylus tells us, he had reduced Ionia by force. The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) 2011-12-15T03:00:18.317Z Aeschylus breathed into tragedy the inspiration of one who had himself fought the great fight of national liberation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z Both in Aeschylus and in Sophocles the light and the gloom cast over the human story are not of this world. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z And we are told that he painted a scene for the tragedies of Aeschylus or Sophocles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z But Aeschylus never meant that Orestes and the Furies were equally justified; for Orestes was acquitted. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z In the Persians of Aeschylus, the chorus inquire of Xerxes, "Where his faithful eye has remained?" The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) 2011-12-15T03:00:18.317Z At the same time the choral song—hitherto the principal part of the performance—became Aeschylus. subordinate to the dialogue; and drama was mature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z What would the thoughtful reader of Aeschylus give for the like guidance through the obscurities which vex his patience, and mar his enjoyment of that sublime poet? A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. 2011-06-30T02:00:27.850Z In Aeschylus fate is powerful even over the gods. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z It may be illustrated more fully by two examples, favourites of his, taken from Aeschylus and Sophocles. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z It is a mistake in Strabo, which however Herodotus and Aeschylus had already made, to say that Cyrus transferred the residence from Persia to Susa. The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) 2011-12-15T03:00:18.317Z Aeschylus was the reputed author of 70 tragedies, Sophocles of 113, Euripides of 92; and there were others whose productiveness was equally great. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z Thespis and Aeschylus probably adopted those obvious aids to rudimentary drama from the shepherd,—who is first-cousin to the savage. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z Every one knows the excellence of the engraved designs to Homer, Dante, Aeschylus and Hesiod, in all cases save when the designer aims at that which he cannot hit, the terrible or the grotesque. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z The Daughters of Pelias was produced in 455, when the poet was twenty-nine, just a year after the death of Aeschylus and thirteen years after the first victory of Sophocles. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z With Aeschylus and Herodotus Susa is a fixed residence, and so also in the treatise "De Mundo," p. The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) 2011-12-15T03:00:18.317Z Aeschylus, Euripides and Lycophron; but it was certainly not written with a view to the dramatic production. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z The hostile criticism of Aristophanes was witty; and, moreover, it was true, granting the premise from which Aristophanes starts, that the tragedy of Aeschylus and Sophocles is the only right model. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z In Aeschylus, the Erinyes are represented as awful, Gorgon-like women, wearing long black robes, with snaky locks, bloodshot eyes and claw-like nails. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z Such stories could be turned into high religious mysteries, as by Aeschylus in his Suppliant Women; into tender and reverent legends, as by Pindar in one or two odes. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z Aeschylus speaks of them as "horsemen mighty with the bow, dreadful to behold, and terrible in the venturous courage of their hearts." The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) 2011-12-15T03:00:18.317Z It suggests a young man imitating Aeschylus, and it has a great number of Euripidean expressions. The Rhesus of Euripedes 2011-02-06T03:01:01.240Z In popular literature, too, where Aeschylus and Sophocles were as yet little known, the 16th and 17th centuries testify to the favour bestowed upon Euripides. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z The story of Electra is the subject of the Cho�phori of Aeschylus, the Electra of Sophocles and the Electra of Euripides. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" 2011-01-29T03:00:23.777Z Aeschylus had also made the whole performance much longer and more impressive: he composed three continuous tragedies forming a single whole and followed by the strange performance called a Satyr-play. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z He published a series of Greek texts, including Aeschylus and Sophocles, just at the end of Columbus' Century, and edited Cicero's "Laws." The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z Hermann, who collected what he took to be "imitations" of early poets in the Rhesus, noted only 25 of Sophocles, 38 of Aeschylus, and 84 of Euripides. The Rhesus of Euripedes 2011-02-06T03:01:01.240Z Euripides gained the third prize, the first falling to Euphorion, the son of Aeschylus, and the second to Sophocles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z Being an Account of the Greek Poets who followed from Homer down to the time of Aeschylus. Rowing 2011-01-15T03:00:32.313Z And nineteen of his plays have survived to our own day as against seven each of Aeschylus and Sophocles. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z Although known as a specialist on the historian Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War, she wrote dozens of books on philosophy and political thought in ancient Greece, on the tragedians Aeschylus and Sophocles, and on Homer. Jacqueline de Romilly, Studied Greek Culture, Dies at 97 2010-12-21T02:38:57Z His style may well have been considerably different fifteen or twenty years earlier, and must certainly have been much under the influence of Aeschylus. The Rhesus of Euripedes 2011-02-06T03:01:01.240Z An unerring instinct keeps both Aeschylus and Sophocles within the limits imposed by this law. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z Today, Met fans talk of that at-bat as The Moment It All Came Undone, as if hard-ball seasons were written by Aeschylus. Omar Minaya: Misunderstood Goat? 2010-10-05T15:30:00Z The same charge had been levelled even against his far less destructive predecessor, Aeschylus. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z The story formed the subject of lost tragedies by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and other Greek and Latin dramatists. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Yet all feel that the Aeneid is much inferior to the Homeric poems in natural human interest, as it is much inferior in reflective interest to the greatest extant dramas of Aeschylus and Sophocles. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil The Choephori of Aeschylus and the Electra of Sophocles appear to invite a direct comparison with this drama. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z Death is the great healer, in the words of Aeschylus, the deliverer from the curse of existence, whether it be an eternal sleep or a far journey into an unknown land. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius This refers specially to the Spartans, but the same tale is told by Aeschylus of the Athenians. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z Aeschylus and Euripides contend in the under-world for the throne of tragedy; and the victory is at last awarded to Aeschylus. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" But on the other hand, the faith of Virgil is less noble than that of Aeschylus and of Sophocles. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil But Euripides has hardly been successful in the rivalry—which he has even pointed by direct allusions—with Aeschylus. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z It goes back to the philosophers of Ionia and Elea, to Aeschylus and Plato. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius When he was twelve he may have seen Aeschylus' Persae, "the one great play dealing with an historical event that exists in literature." Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z He edited Hesiod, Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles and other authors; but his chief fame rests on his critical and exegetical edition of Homer, practically the foundation of our present recension. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" If we had the 200 plays of Aeschylus, the 160 of Sophocles, the last books of Livy, the missing annals of Tacitus, which this library held, the stature of these writers would not be increased. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses Aeschylus and Sophocles, as different exponents of an artistic conception which is fundamentally the same, may be profitably compared; Euripides interprets another conception, and must be tried by other principles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z The step which made dramatic action possible, and with which the Greek drama thus really began, was, as is distinctly stated by Aristotle, taken by Aeschylus. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" Aeschylus, we remember, had the habit of writing true "trilogies"—three continuous dramas, carrying on the same history. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z In art they are usually represented as richly dressed Asiatics, picturesquely grouped with their griffin foes; the subject is often described by poets from Aeschylus to Milton. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" He also wrote a work on the metres of the Greek dramatic poets, and compiled special lexicons to Aeschylus and Sophocles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" It is to be remembered that, as a selection, the nine chosen plays of Euripides correspond to those seven of Aeschylus and those seven of Sophocles which alone remain to us. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z From this Aeschylus proceeded to the treatment of these several portions of a myth in three separate plays, connected together by their subject and by being performed in sequence on a single occasion. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" Aeschylus in his Libation-Bearers had dealt with this theme on broad lines and with gorgeous intensity of imagination. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z The Eumenides of Aeschylus is a glorification of the institution, though for obvious reasons it is there represented as an essentially judicial body. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" The style of Cratinus has been likened to that of Aeschylus; and Aristophanes, in the Knights, compares him to a rushing torrent. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" He was compared with Aeschylus and Sophocles as representatives of that ideal Greek tragedy which ranges with the purest type of sculpture. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z Among the dramatists there are Aeschylus, whose tragedies were translated in verse by R. Potter, London, 1777, and Sophocles, whose tragedies were translated by the same hand, London, 1788. Book Repair and Restoration By the time Euripides began to write the master-tragedian Aeschylus had already lifted Greek drama to its highest level: whole generations have read his plays without even suspecting the ritual form that lies behind them. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z The name of Colchis first appears in Aeschylus and Pindar. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" He was said to have competed with Aeschylus, Pratinas and even Sophocles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" The distinction between Europe and Asia is found, however, in Aeschylus in the 5th century B.C., but there seems to be little doubt that this opposition was learnt by the Greeks from some Asiatic people. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z Edward FitzGerald’s rendering of the Agamemnon of Aeschylus, London, 1876, which does not, however, pretend to be a close translation, may well be included for the unusual beauty of its verse. Book Repair and Restoration The story had been treated before Euripides by many poets, including Homer, Stesichorus, Pindar, Aeschylus and possibly—though the dates are not certain—Sophocles. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z One or two "Monitors" would have settled in half an hour the fight which Aeschylus shared at Salamis. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 I had no books by me at the time save Aeschylus and Blake.' The Hound of Heaven And Aeschylus has remarked, and La Rochefoucauld and Helv�tius bear him out, how much easier a man finds the effort to sympathize with another's misery than to rejoice in his joy. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe Aeschylus has made the most of this old legend in his great drama of Prometheus Bound. History of Human Society Aeschylus indeed has written one splendid battle piece in the Persians. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z This, however, is nothing against it, because equally true of large works in other fields of art, e.g., the Agamemnon of Aeschylus or Wagner's Tetralogy. Music: An Art and a Language And in answering it, it will hardly be possible to consider too large a number of instances of all degrees of merit, from Aeschylus himself to Mr. Dash himself, of all languages, of all times. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Mr. Bevan however suspects that Aeschylus misunderstood his Persian sources: see his article on 'Deification' in Hastings's Dictionary of Religion. Five Stages of Greek Religion The age represents a galaxy of great men: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Herodotus, Socrates, Thucydides, Phidias, Ictinus, and others. History of Human Society He followed in the wake not of Anaxagoras but of Aeschylus. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z Steevens compares the passage in the Essay of Dramatic Poesy, where Dryden says that “Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles, and Seneca never meddled with comedy.” Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare The fragments show imitation of Aeschylus as well as of Sophocles and Euripides. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors By a change of style which emerges in, say, Pindar and Aeschylus when compared with what we know of Corinna or Thespis. Five Stages of Greek Religion It would never have occurred to Sophocles or Aeschylus to put such a speech in the mouth of one of his characters. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity There is daring, perhaps excessive daring, in making it occur this way; but the psychology of something like hypnotism had a fascination for both Aeschylus and Euripides. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z In Aeschylus Greek tragedy had been a thing of traditional forms and clear-cut divisions; the religious ritual showed through, and the visible gods and the disguised dancers were allowed their full value. Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes It is as though we caught Ajax masquerading as a mummer, or Aeschylus dressed up in cap and bells. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations It is a long way from these conceptions to the Zeus of Aeschylus, a figure as sublime as the Jehovah of Job; but the lineage seems clear. Five Stages of Greek Religion Had Shakespeare been a classical scholar, he would almost certainly have modelled his plays on Seneca or Aeschylus, and the results would have been devastating. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study Aeschylus fought among the heavy-armed infantry, Sophocles danced in a choir of boys to celebrate the victory, and Euripides was born in Salamis on the day of the battle. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z As to the Chorus, it generally plays a smaller part in Sophocles than in Euripides and Aeschylus, and the Oedipus forms no exception to that rule. Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes Here, as in Aeschylus and Euripides, as in Shakespeare and Goethe, one is left with an intimation of the clash of forces beyond and below humanity, beyond and below nature. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions Even in Homer we find it expurgated; in Pindar, Aeschylus, and Xenophanes it is expurgated, denied and allegorized. Five Stages of Greek Religion Aeschylus and Sophocles are witnesses, not to be disbelieved, on these points. The Idea of God in Early Religions I have read Caesar and Virgil, and a little of Horace; and in Greek, the New Testament, Xenophon, and two plays of Aeschylus; and my father considered me well acquainted with English history and geography.” Owen Hartley; or, Ups and Downs A Tale of Land and Sea But the purists drew great delight from reading his works and clapped their hands with satisfaction on seeing how near Plato and Aeschylus they had managed to come. Life Immovable First Part The opening Books are as sublime as the book of Job, and more arresting than Aeschylus. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions This Keats, and Keats alone, could do; and his achievement is unique in throwing all the glamour of romance over a fragment 'sublime as Aeschylus'. Keats: Poems Published in 1820 Then we find Aeschylus comparing mental vision to the strong natural eye of the “deep diver.” Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters “I believe that was the Aeschylus paper,” said Brogten, throwing the slightest unusual emphasis into his tone; “you were first in that, weren’t you, Kennedy?” Julian Home Aeschylus and Sophocles have been admirably rendered in English verse by Mr. E. D. A. Morshead. The Book-Hunter at Home It is, at any rate in form, more like Aeschylus than Sophocles, and more like the Persae and the Prometheus than the Oresteian Trilogy. Milton It is that movement which you will not find elsewhere, any more than the statues of Pheidias or the dialogues of Plato or the poems of Aeschylus and Euripides. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Try to compare our inventions, our material civilization, our stores of accumulated knowledge, with those of the age of Aeschylus or Aristotle or St. Francis, and the comparison is absurd. Christianity and Progress Lazily rising to see what it was, he found it to be an Aeschylus, and turned over the leaves with a feeling of listless indifference. Julian Home Not so in poetry: if it were, much of Pindar and Aeschylus, and no little of Dante, would be censurable. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection A tragedy by Aeschylus was once represented before the Athenians, in which it was said of one of the characters, "that he cared not more to be just than to appear so." Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power In that sense I think it was young in the time of Themistocles and Aeschylus. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield But compare any chosen poet of our age with Aeschylus, any philosopher with Aristotle, any saintly preacher with St. Francis, and the result is totally different. Christianity and Progress I wish there was an Aeschylus paper; you might be first, you know, again.” Julian Home There is nothing of sublimity in the horrific of Dante, which there always is in Aeschylus and Homer. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Prometheus represented to Shelley's mind the human spirit fighting against divine oppression, and in his portrayal of this figure, he kept in mind not only the Prometheus of Aeschylus, but the Satan of Paradise Lost. Brief History of English and American Literature ‘Beside the great Attic poets, like Aeschylus and Sophocles, I am absolutely nothing.’ The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Shakespeare had kept off it, and it was after Aeschylus’ time; and as far as I knew I was the first to clothe it in a tragic garb. Boycotted And Other Stories Men began to see clearly that there must have been some mystery attached to the Aeschylus paper, known to Brogten and Kennedy, and very discomfiting to the latter. Julian Home Look at Sophocles, look at Aeschylus, look at Homer. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection He skilfully hinted that Jeffreys read Aeschylus with him sometimes; and once, as a crowning argument, produced a complete “dodge,” perfected and mechanically clever, “which,” he asserted, “Jeff made me stick to till I’d done.” A Dog with a Bad Name “Where,” he said, “would one look for a greater orator than Demosthenes; or finer dramatic poetry, next to Shakspere, than that of Aeschylus or Sophocles, not to speak of Euripides.” The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield With reference to Kālidāsa, he holds a position such as Aeschylus holds with reference to Euripides. The Little Clay Cart Mrcchakatika He has made me laugh heartily, and wonder: but as to your calling him greater than Aeschylus or Sophocles, I do not agree with you. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 "Greatness," wrote Aeschylus, "is no defense from utter destruction when a man insolently spurns the mighty altar of justice." The Case of Edith Cavell A Study of the Rights of Non-Combatants Euripides was accused of heresy, and Aeschylus was condemned to be stoned to death for blasphemy and was saved from this fate by his brother Aminias. The Necessity of Atheism But the whole moral mystery, to its remorseless end, was uttered again and again in passionate words by Aeschylus, who consciously discarded the primitive magical determinism in which Herodotus afterwards vainly sought relief. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield In the first place Agatharcus, in Athens, when Aeschylus was bringing out a tragedy, painted a scene, and left a commentary about it. The Ten Books on Architecture And again, a stern and more or less hopeless melancholy necessarily is under-current in the minds of the greatest men of all ages,—of Homer, Aeschylus, Pindar, or Shakespeare. Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871 His edition of Aeschylus, with the text and notes of Stanley, appeared 1809-1816, and was somewhat severely criticized in the Edinburgh Review, but Butler was prevented by his elevation to the episcopate from, revising it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Let this stand as a tentative reply: Aeschylus's "Prometheus Bound," Dante's "Divine Comedy," Shakespeare's "Hamlet," Milton's "Paradise Lost," and Job, author unknown. A Hero and Some Other Folks I quite understand that Plato or Aeschylus may have had fine ideas, but surely anything of value which they said must long before this have become common property. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield It is a liberal education to have travelled from Aeschylus, with his almost Asiatic splendour of imagination, to Theocritus, under whose exquisite touch the soft outlines of Sicilian life took on idyllic loveliness! Under the Trees and Elsewhere In the case of Aeschylus and Sophocles the numbering of lines agrees with that in the translations of Plumptre and in the original. Story of Orestes A Condensation of the Trilogy Aeschylus and others declare life is not a scene of repose, 691-u. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Sculptor, as Phidias; statesman, as Pericles; dramatist, as Aeschylus; general, as Themistocles; stern justice, as Aristides,—Greece can show; and such characters the historians, dramatists, and epic poets will delineate and celebrate. A Hero and Some Other Folks But when we read Homer or Aeschylus, if once we have the power to admire and understand their writing, we do not for the most part have any feeling of having got beyond them. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield The oldest dramatists, Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles, have never been surpassed. Evolution An Investigation and a Critique No one has ever really translated the Greek lyrics or the choruses of Aeschylus, or the incomparable songs of Heine. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View Critics used once to call our Shakespeare a barbarian, and might equally well give the same name to Aeschylus or Isaiah. The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 Dante is nearest neighbor to Aeschylus, though fifteen hundred years removed, and the "Divine Comedy" has all elements of sublimity. A Hero and Some Other Folks Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides—perhaps we should give the entire credit, as some authorities do, to Aeschylus—taught the future world the art of writing a play. The Autobiography of a Play Papers on Play-Making, II They delighted in Virgil and Lucian, and still more in Homer and Aeschylus. The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches This perfection of phrasing is not always to be found even in the greatest poets, for Aeschylus and Dante at times strike a fierce discord, and Shakespeare, Calderon, and Goethe sometimes pass into rank extravaganza. Studies in Early Victorian Literature Aeschylus describes it as a ‘snow-shower of round stones,’ which Zeus rained down in aid of Heracles, who was contending with the Ligurians. The Visions of England Lyrics on leading men and events in English History Aeschylus is a poet whose face was never lit even with the candle-light of smiles; but Shakespeare, writer of tragedy, is our laughing poet. A Hero and Some Other Folks The majority of his countrymen said he was nothing to the late Aeschylus. Masques & Phases He edited Aeschylus, and was in his way a famous geographer. The Atlas of Ancient and Classical Geography Mr. Swinburne, after observing that King Lear is 'by far the most Aeschylean' of Shakespeare's works, proceeds thus: 'But in one main point it differs radically from the work and the spirit of Aeschylus. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth I conclude with these words of Lord Latymer: There is nothing comparable with it except the "Prometheus Bound" of Aeschylus. On The Art of Reading The splendid era of Pericles demanded the tragedy, and such a tragedy as only Aeschylus and Sophocles could originate; while the foibles of an earlier era made the comedy imperative. A Hero and Some Other Folks Here is Petrarch's Horace and a Dante transcribed by Villani; and, best of all, the only ancient codex in the world of what remains to us of Aeschylus, of what is left of Sophocles. Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition For a second he clasped my hand in his own thin, lifeless one, and repeated, in a voice that was hardly more than a whisper, Aeschylus's words: 'Oh, this life of man! Musicians of To-Day They expressed much appreciation of the Romantic school, but their hearts were with Aeschylus and Pindar. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century To begin with, then, you will not have failed to notice, in the setting out of the drama, a curious resemblance between "Job" and the "Prometheus" of Aeschylus. On The Art of Reading It was like no other book that had ever been written, and critics were driven to talk of Aeschylus or Isaiah. The Life of Froude In the Belvedere Apollo we see expressed at once the genius of Homer, Aristotle, Herodotus, Aeschylus, Pindar, Thales, and Plato. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology If one of the two were about to be taken from us, and we had our choice which it should be, we should have to cry, Take Aeschylus, but leave us this! The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 The efforts of Aeschylus and Sophocles were sustained by it, and its inevitable decay through the scepticism which preceded Socrates was the chief hindrance to the tragic genius of Euripides. The Seven Plays in English Verse It is the same in Aeschylus as in Shakespeare, though the form of its manifestation varies in some outward respects from age to age. The Function of the Poet and Other Essays He found men who still read the classics as literature, not to convict Aeschylus of violating Dawes's Canon, or to get loafers through the schools. The Life of Froude Welcker210 thinks that the ethnological conceptions of Aeschylus, in his "Suppliants," are invaluable helps in the study of the Pelasgic relations to the Greeks. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology Six years later Aeschylus produced The Persians, the first of the seven extant out of the seventy or eighty plays he wrote; in it he is still absolutely the patriotic Athenian. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 The reader of Aeschylus or Sophocles should therefore be warned against attributing to the poet’s invention that which is given in the fable. The Seven Plays in English Verse The language of Aeschylus is an extraordinary thing, the syntax stiff and simple, the vocabulary obscure, unexpected, and steeped in splendour. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes The Greek dramatists, even Aeschylus himself, are burdened with a painful consciousness of the problems of human life, with perplexed theories of Fate and Providence. The Life of Froude The tragic poet, Aeschylus, is a figure like that of Michael Angelo in Italian art, grand, sombre, and possessed by his ideas. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology In the Seven against Thebes Aeschylus protested against the current of the age. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 To recur once more to the much-abused analogy of statuary:—the work of Aeschylus may be compared to a colossal frieze, while that of Sophocles resembles the pediment of a smaller temple. The Seven Plays in English Verse The Agamemnon is not, like Aeschylus' Suppliant Women, a statue half-hewn out of the rock. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes Let us bear in mind that the Aeolic was neither the language of Aeschylus, nor the Attic, nor even the old speech of Homer. Five Years of Theosophy In Aeschylus' Libation-Bearers, which deals with the same subject as the Electra, the scene is at Agamemnon's tomb. The Electra of Euripides Translated into English rhyming verse Though it was the rule that no successful play should be performed more than once, they decreed that 'revivals' of Aeschylus should always be in order. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 For some reason which is not clearly apparent, both he and Aeschylus drew more largely from the Cyclic poets than from ‘our Homer’. The Seven Plays in English Verse But, according to Aeschylus, there is a new Ruler now in heaven, one who has both sinned and suffered and thereby grown wise. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes The doctrine of Shakespeare, where it is not vaguer, is darker in its implication of injustice, in its acceptance of accident, than the impression of the doctrine of Aeschylus. The Age of Shakespeare But why, it may be asked, did he adopt Aeschylus' signs, and even his peculiar word? The Electra of Euripides Translated into English rhyming verse Aeschylus, and Plato, and Socrates who speaks through Plato, and Pythagoras who speaks through all of them, are the Greeks whose voices are lifted forever for the Soul. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 In the Electra, which, though much earlier than the Philoctetes, is still a work of his mature genius, our poet appears at first sight to be in unequal competition with Aeschylus. The Seven Plays in English Verse If we ask why men are so blind, seeking their welfare thus through incessant evil, Aeschylus will tell us that the cause lies in the infection of old sin, old cruelty. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes Aeschylus is above all things the poet of righteousness. The Age of Shakespeare We know the majestic murderess of Aeschylus, so strong as to be actually beautiful, so fearless and unrepentant that one almost feels her to be right. The Electra of Euripides Translated into English rhyming verse It is Hamlet over again, and treated differently; that which wrote Hamlet through Shakespeare, wrote this Trilogy through Aeschylus. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Aeschylus in the Seven against Thebes had already represented the young heroine as defying the victorious citizens who forbade the burial of her brother, the rebel Polynices. The Seven Plays in English Verse The fall of Pride, the avenging of wrong by wrong, is no new subject selected by Aeschylus. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes Euripides's play of the 'Suppliants' is contradicted by that of Aeschylus, the 'Eleusinians,' in which Theseus is introduced giving orders for this to be done. Plutarch's Lives, Volume I In the result Sophocles is not only more "classical" than Euripides; he is more primitive by far than Aeschylus. The Electra of Euripides Translated into English rhyming verse At the beginning of the Greek age in literature, we find the stupendous figure of Aeschylus. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 After him Aeschylus, the inventor of the vizard mask and decent robe, laid the stage over with boards of a tolerable size, and taught to speak in lofty tone, and strut in the buskin. The Works of Horace In other poets Agamemnon has generally committed some definite sin against Artemis, but in Aeschylus the death of Iphigenîa seems to be merely one of the results of his acceptance of the Sign. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes Now eagles, and owls, and falcons, peck and kill other birds, in spite of Aeschylus's line, "Bird-eating bird polluted e'er must be." Plutarch's Lives, Volume I In Aeschylus' Libation-Bearers he speaks only once, with tremendous effect, at the crisis of the play, to rebuke Orestes when his heart fails him. The Electra of Euripides Translated into English rhyming verse Almost suddenly, during Aeschylus' lifetime, another Greek Art came into being. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 And, like the Athenians who left the performance of a tragedy by Aeschylus thirsting to close their books and march on the enemy, we dreamed of combats in which we were to win fame. New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index In Aeschylus the subtlety is there, but it is not easy to follow. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes Now that Aeschylus is no longer performed as a playwright, we read him as a poet. The Theory of the Theatre Because, whether invented by Aeschylus or not, these signs were a canonical part of the story by the time Euripides wrote. The Electra of Euripides Translated into English rhyming verse Electra closes with an expression of entire satisfaction… Aeschylus takes the old bloody saga in an earnest and troubled spirit, very different from Homer's, but quite as grand. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Yea, Aeschylus permits not personified power to utter a single word. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher Aeschylus employs none of the devices of later playwrights to make her interesting. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes He pointed to a beautiful Viennese edition of Aeschylus, in three sumptuous volumes, which had just appeared and was now lying on the Reader's table. Lady Connie For Aeschylus, though steeped in the glory of the world of legend, would not lightly accept its judgment upon religious and moral questions, and above all would not, in that region, play at make-believe. The Electra of Euripides Translated into English rhyming verse Well might old Aeschylus pray, 'God grant that I may sack no city!' if the reality of conquest is what it appears in the last plays of Euripides. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides were the three great tragic poets; and from the works of these three illustrious writers, and from them alone, we must draw all our knowledge of the ancient Greek Tragedy. A History of Pantomime The first prize was won by Aeschylus with the "Agamemnon", "Libation-Bearers", "Eumenides", and the Satyr Play "Proteus". The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes The poetry of Aeschylus is full of his great realization of the nexus between act and outcome. The Jesus of History Euripides, here as often, represents intellectually the thought of Aeschylus carried a step further. The Electra of Euripides Translated into English rhyming verse She never produced a figure comparable to, nor in the least like, our Homers and Aeschyluses, Dantes and Miltons and Shakespeares. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Aeschylus first introduced dialogue, that most essential part of tragedy, and by the addition of the second personage, threw the whole fable into action, and restored the chorus to its ancient dignity. A History of Pantomime Aeschylus adopts the latter view: Why was this being called Helena? The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes You hear Aeschylus's footsteps and voice in the lines. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) He faced the problem just as Aeschylus did, and as Sophocles did not. The Electra of Euripides Translated into English rhyming verse This was what Pindar taught—all-worshiped prosperous Pindar, Aeschylus' contemporary, the darling poet of the Greeks. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 In character Loki has more in common with the mischievous spirit described by Hesiod, than with the heroic figure of Aeschylus. The Edda, Volume 1 The Divine Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 12 It seems to me that Aeschylus' imagination realized all the confused passions in Clytemnestra's mind, but that his art was not yet sufficiently developed to make them all clear and explicit. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes Washing out my conscience, effacing the blot on my escutcheon, performing an expiation, translating over again from the Greek the 'Prometheus' of Aeschylus. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) But the solution offered by Aeschylus did not satisfy him. The Electra of Euripides Translated into English rhyming verse If Aeschylus was not an Initiate of Eleusis, he had learnt, with the Pythagoreans, the method of the Mysteries of all lands. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 But she will never write an Iliad or a Paradise Lost, or tragedies like those of Aeschylus. True Woman, The A Series of Discourses She too is one of Aeschylus' silent figures. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes Compare them with Homer's grand breathing personalities, with Aeschylus's—nay, but I cannot bear upon my lips or finger the charge of the blasphemy of such comparing, even for religion's sake.... The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) This first-mentioned theater is said to have been "the cradle of dramatic art," the masterpieces of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and others having been rendered there. A Trip Abroad Aeschylus never mentions love at all in any of his extant plays; only barely hints at it here. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 In the choruses, the inspirations of the Hebrew prophets, framed as it were in a Greek mould, give impressive relief to the dialogue, as in Sophocles and Aeschylus. The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe Herodotus and Aeschylus can only be read in the original. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 05, March, 1858 I had two volumes of Euripides with me in Devonshire, and have read him as well as Aeschylus and Sophocles—that is from them—both before and since I went there. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) Aeschylus, indeed, is said to have imitated it closely in the 'Persians.' Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 And here we must guard ourselves against the error—as I think it is that Aeschylus set himself to create the perfect and final art-form as such. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 He had bought the works of Euripides and Aeschylus in the Loeb Library, and he thought them "thundering good." The Secret City Literature assumes this order; in Aeschylus, Cervantes, or Shakspere, it is this that gives their work interest. Heart of Man I do not remember that you suggested any change in the verse on Aeschylus. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) The play well illustrates the conditions under which Aeschylus at this period wrote. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 Aeschylus made no separate symbol for the former. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 As the younger Dumas observed, 'Give me two boards, two trestles, three actors'—but the great Aeschylus did with two—'two actors,' let us say—'and a passion'—provided your terms are not prohibitive . True Tilda In Greece the three stages are clearly marked both in matter and manner, in Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides; in England less clearly in Marlowe, Shakspere, and Webster. Heart of Man A translation from the Greek of Aeschylus by a woman caused much comment, but like the first book it received severe criticism. Lives of Girls Who Became Famous Aeschylus departs from the Homeric account, which was followed by other poets, in making the action of the next play, the 'Choëphori,' follow closer upon that of the 'Agamemnon.' Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 "Indeed," says Mahaffy, "it is no unusual practice to exhibit the defects of both Aeschylus and Euripides by comparison with their more successful rival." The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 He is as natural, as human, as readily conceivable, and yet he produces something of the subtle depth of effect which belongs to the actor in a play of Aeschylus. Studies in Literature "Because he combined the vigor and power of Aeschylus with the polish and refinement of Euripides." The Shadow of the North A Story of Old New York and a Lost Campaign Chief patterns of world drama; Aeschylus to Anderson, with introductions on the history of the drama and the stage. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1974 January - June Aeschylus was singularly successful in an age that produced many great poets. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 Aeschylus has kept Electra and Clytemnestra apart; here we see them freely in the hard unloveliness of their daily wrangles. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 The complete Greek drama; all the extant tragedies of Aeschylus, in a variety of translations. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1966 January - June A worse fate than that of Aeschylus, who had his skull cracked by a tortoise dropt by an eagle that mistook his bald head for a stone. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 Only the grave Aeschylus had dared to portray the Oceanides—virgins fresh and demure, weeping around the rock to which Prometheus was bound. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel To Aeschylus is due the invention of the second actor. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 Aeschylus's superhuman speech seems like natural superhuman speech. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 On Friday, December 17, 1880, she attended the presentation of the Agamemnon of Aeschylus, in the original Greek, with the accompaniments of the ancient theatre, by the undergraduates of Balliol College, Oxford. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy Ferrers was ambitious to create a drama in England, and lacked only genius to be the British Aeschylus. Gossip in a Library Prometheus represented to Shelley's mind the human spirit fighting against divine oppression, and in his portrayal of this figure he kept in mind not only the Prometheus of Aeschylus, but the Satan of Paradise Lost. From Chaucer to Tennyson The number of actors was subsequently increased to three, and Aeschylus in his later plays used this number. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 The mantle of the religious Egyptians had fallen on Aeschylus: but Sophocles' garb was the true fashionable Athenian chiton of his day. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Sometimes she presents this doctrine with all the stern, unpitying vigor of an Aeschylus, as a dire effect of wrong that comes upon men with an unrelenting mercilessness. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy He loved to repeat the sad old strains of Bion; and Aeschylus and Sophocles interested him deeply. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 While there he made poetical paraphrases of the most celebrated Greek poets; of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Aristophanes, which were thought efforts of extraordinary promise. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 407, December 24, 1829 In his portrayal of the fortunes of this doomed race, Aeschylus departed in important particulars, with gain in dramatic effect, from the story as it is read in Homer. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 He was personal, where the other had been impersonal; faultless, where the other had been sublime; conventionally orthodox, where through Aeschylus had surged the super-credal spirit of universal prophecy. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 It is true the Romans had no Aeschylus nor Sophocles, and but a secondhand Homer, though this last was not only the most finished but even the most original of imitators. Famous Reviews These lines represent the subjects of tragedies by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the great tragic poets of Athens. MacMillan's Reading Books Book V The story of Euripides in his Suppliants is disproved by Aeschylus in his Eleusinians, where Theseus himself relates the facts as here told. Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans Before Aeschylus, Attic tragedy had been essentially lyrical. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 The very fact that eighteen of his plays survive, to seven each of Aeschylus' and Sophocles', is proof of his larger and longer popularity. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Such was this simple and sublime allegory in the hands of Aeschylus. Famous Reviews In the Eumenides of Aeschylus, the plea of Orestes in extenuation of his crime is that he is not of kin to his mother. The God-Idea of the Ancients or Sex in Religion They say in his sadder vicissitudes he used sometimes to apostrophize fortune in the words of Aeschylus — Thou liftest up, to cast us down again. Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans The introduction of the second actor was so capital an innovation that it rightly entitles Aeschylus to be regarded as the creator of the drama, for in his hands tragedy first became essentially dramatic. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 Aeschylus, witness of eternity, had cried his message down to Athens and to his fellow-citizens; he had poured the waters of eternity into the vial of his own age and place. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 In "Oceanus" Aeschylus seems to have intended to personify the great surrounding stream. Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars Danton's rage sinks to an inaudible whisper, and even Aeschylus shrivels before that cataclysm of Promethean fire; that celestial monsoon. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 Nor were there some wanting who had the courage to undertake the thing, of whom Aeschylus and Charimenes the soothsayer were the chief. Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans Only seven complete plays of Aeschylus are still extant. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 He had affiliations, like Aeschylus, in Sicily, whither he made certain journeys; and might have stayed there among his fellow Pythagoreans, but for the irascible temper of Dionysius. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Five hundred years before Christ, in the bloom period of thought—the period of Aeschylus, Phidias, Pericles, Socrates, and Plato—appeared Hippocrates, one of the greatest names in history. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom Aeschylus speaks of this fable as existing before his day. Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend But everything points to the fact that in the development of the drama Aeschylus was the decisive innovator. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 But Aeschylus had a model for his historical play in the 'Phoenician Women' of his predecessor Phrynichus, which dealt with the same theme. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 Go to the life of such a man, if you want big clues as to the inner history of his age;—the life of Aeschylus, I think, can interpret for us that of Athens. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Next, let us look at another man who, as Aeschylus says, Is set over against another State; or rather, as our plan requires, begin with the State. The Republic That enormous ability by virtue of which one is Moses, Aeschylus, Dante, Michael Angelo, or Napoleon, the multitude awards on the spot, and by acclamation, to whomsoever attains his object, in whatsoever it may consist. Les Misérables It remains to say a word on two more points, the religious ideas of Aeschylus and some of the main characteristics of his poetry. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 Later, Aeschylus saw the family of tyrants, which for fifty years had ruled Attica with varying fortunes, banished from the land. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 Aeschylus had proudly distinguished himself at Marathon; and Athens, as the highest honor she could do him for that, must have his portrait appear in the battle-picture painted for a memorial of the victory. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 He was never in any sense a classic; read Greek with difficulty—Aeschylus and Sophocles mainly in translations—and while appreciating Tacitus disparaged Horace. Thomas Carlyle Adams jumped up, flung his Aeschylus into the fire, and fell a-roaring to the people of the house for help. Joseph Andrews Vol 1 The fortunes of Agamemnon have formed the subject of numerous tragedies, ancient and modern, the most famous being the Oresteia of Aeschylus. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 To him, therefore, we owe Aristophanes as well as Euripides, Sophocles, and my poor Aeschylus. Joseph Andrews, Volume 2 But such a position would not do for Aeschylus. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 In the former edition— Now flames old Memnon, now Rodrigo burns, In one quick flash see Proserpine expire, And last, his own cold Aeschylus took fire. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 "Cyphers?" answered Adams, "it is a manuscript of Aeschylus." Joseph Andrews Vol 1 This family fate, where one evil deed leads to another after many years, is a larger conception, strikingly suited to Aeschylus' genius, and constitutes a notable stage in the development of the Aeschylean drama. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 "Do you know, sir," cry'd Adams, "where I can buy an Aeschylus? an unlucky misfortune lately happened to mine." Joseph Andrews, Volume 2 What they went to hear was Aeschylus' treatment of it; his art, his poetry, his preaching. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 "I was reading a German critic on Aeschylus," he said. The Lovels of Arden "What did the rascal mean by his Aeschylus?" says the justice. Joseph Andrews Vol 1 About 476 Aeschylus was entertained by him, and at his request wrote and exhibited a play called The Women of Aetna in honour of the new town. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 Aeschylus was beyond the gentleman, though he knew him very well by name; he therefore, returning back to Homer, asked Adams, "What part of the Iliad he thought most excellent?" Joseph Andrews, Volume 2 It was in 499 Aeschylus first competed; the show was still very rudimentary in character. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Besides the little shabby Oxford Homers there were an Aeschylus, a Sophocles, two volumes of Aristophanes, clean and new, three volumes of Euripides and a Greek Testament. Mary Olivier: a Life The sources for his story were the old Cyclic poem, the later epic of Antimachus, the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, that draw their plots from the Theban cycle of legend. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal The mask, to enable the actor to assume different parts, by whomsoever invented, was in regular use before Aeschylus' day. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 Aeschylus, the father of tragedy, seizing upon the chorus, elaborated it into the drama. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 But what interested Aeschylus was that which lies beyond and within life. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Yesterday she had taken out the Aeschylus and looked at it, and she had forgotten that Mark was dead and had felt glad because it was hers. Mary Olivier: a Life Against the walls were suspended the horns of the stag that Shakespeare shot; and on the floor lay the ponderous shell of the tortoise which fell upon the head of Aeschylus. A Virtuoso's Collection (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") These two are veritable figures drawn from contemporary life; and though both appear only once, and are quite unimportant in the drama, the innovation is most significant, and especially as adopted by Aeschylus. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 The woman is a tragedy herself, such as Aeschylus never dreamed of. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 When we find Aeschylus at the start at odds with it, and Plato at the end condemning it wholesale,—for my part I think we hardly need bother to argue about it further. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Such will occasion sometimes as much conjecture towards their explanation as a disputed passage in Shakspere or Aeschylus. Wilfrid Cumbermede Do think of a girl of seventeen, in the wilds of Connemara, intimately acquainted with all the beauties of Aeschylus and Euripides, and having them as part of her daily thoughts! The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 A few comments on the extant plays will help to indicate the main points of Aeschylus' work. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 It has the severe grandeur of Aeschylus, the moving tenderness of Euripides, and the individual fidelity of Shakspeare. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Aeschylus had been so charged, and tried—but acquitted. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Aeschylus, the grandest of the three tragedians, who has given us under a thin veil the first plantation of Europe. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 So the maidens ground and ground, and one sang their piteous tale in a strain worthy of Aeschylus as the other worked— they prayed for rest and pity, but Frodi was deaf. Popular Tales from the Norse In this trilogy Aeschylus, for the first time, has attempted some touches of character in two of the humbler parts, the Watchman in Agameninoni, and the Nurse in the Choephoroe. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 The drama reached its perfection in the masterly tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, and in the comedies of Aristophanes. Outline of Universal History Of Aeschylus and Socrates we can speak with certainty: they were the Soul's elect men. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 The only flight of a testudinate which we remember is that downward one of the unfortunate tortoise that cracked the bald crown of Aeschylus. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Aeschylus, and even Sophocles, had become ancient literature in the age immediately following their own. Latin Literature Aeschylus always has a taste for the unseen and the supernatural; and one effective incident here is the raising of Darius's ghost, and his prophecy of the disastrous battle of Plataea. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 This legend was the basis of some of the finest of the Greek dramas, "Oedipus Tyrannus," and the "Oedipus at Colonus" of Sophocles, and "The Seven against Thebes" of Aeschylus. Outline of Universal History In Pheidias himself I cannot but think we should have found that moment as we find it in Aeschylus. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 I can only compare with that excited by the Cassandra of Aeschylus's Agamemnon. Milton In the time of Aeschylus, Thebes was, of course, a notable city, his great contemporary Pindar was a citizen of it. Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays But the new spirit imported by the genius of Aeschylus into the early drama was religious in a profounder meaning of the term. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 Aeschylus is said to have brought in a second actor, and Sophocles a third. Outline of Universal History But to return to our muttons, which is Greece; and now to the literature again:— After Aeschylus, Sophocles. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Behold Aeschylus; thanks to the talent, to the cleverness he has shown, he returns to his country; and his fellow-citizens, his relations, his friends will all hail his return with joy. The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 But the Thebes of Aeschylus' date is one thing, the fortress represented in Aeschylus' play is quite another, and is never, by him, called Thebes. Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays Of the poetic qualities of Aeschylus' drama and diction, both in the lyrics and the dialogue, no adequate account can be attempted; the briefest word must here suffice. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 He considered Browning, Aeschylus and Shakespeare the three most dramatic writers. Sketches from Concord and Appledore What was to Aeschylus a secondary object; the purely artistic—was to Sophocles the whole thing. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 So Euripides, elated with pride, took possession of the throne on which Aeschylus was installed. The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 Aeschylus, in fact, was poetizing an earlier legend of the fortress of Cadmus. Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays Aeschylus and other tragic poets made use of the story, which was a favourite subject in ancient works of art. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 Of the life of Aeschylus, the first of the three great masters of Greek tragedy, only a very meager outline has come down to us. The House of Atreus He had no certain message from the Gods, as Aeschylus had; his intensely human heart and his mighty intellect kept him from being the 'flawless artist' that Sophocles was. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Enough said, Aeschylus, calm the wild wrath that is turning your heart into a furnace. The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 Sophocles and Euripides give us their versions of the legend, which we may epitomize, without, however, affirming that they followed exactly the lines of Aeschylus Trilogy—they, for instance, speak freely of Thebes. Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays What little suppers, or sizing, as they were called, have I enjoyed; when Aeschylus, and Plato, and Thucydides, were pushed aside, with a pile of lexicons, &c., to discuss the pamphlets of the day. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey The importance of Aeschylus in the development of the drama is immense. The House of Atreus He was not panoplied, like Aeschylus or Milton, in their grim and shining armor; yet what armor he wore bore kindred proud dints from the hellions' batterings. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 And what do you propose to do, Aeschylus? The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 In any case, we can hardly err in accepting Dr. Verral's judgment that "the story of Aeschylus may be, and in the outlines probably is, the genuine epic legend of the Cadmean war." Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays The thoughts were those of Aeschylus, expressed by the music of Langhetti. Cord and Creese Aeschylus stirs something in us far deeper than the sources of mere pleasurable excitement. Among My Books Second Series That dreadful voice rings through Aeschylus; who was altogether obsessed with the majesty and awfulness of Karma. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Here again our friend Aeschylus' verse drags down the scale; 'tis because he has thrown in Death, the weightiest of all ills. The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 The surviving dramas of Aeschylus are seven in number, though he is believed to have written nearly a hundred during his life of sixty-nine years, from 525 B.C. to 456 B.C. Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays I divine something like it now and then in Aeschylus, through the mists of a language which will not let me be sure of what I see, but nowhere else. Among My Books First Series With Aeschylus or Sophocles he might perchance have matched himself. Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Something like that, perhaps, is the impression Aeschylus leaves on the minds of those who know him. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 I have decided that Aeschylus is the victor. The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 We shall not discover the full sequel of Aeschylus' mighty dramatic conception: we "know in part, and we prophesy in part." Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays |
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