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- adjective Of or relating to
Aeschylus , an ancient Greek dramatic poet.
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_David and Bethsabe, _ which have been often called Aeschylean in audacity: --
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 Kenneth Morris 1908
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Aeschylean tragedy to Platonic dialogue, via Euripides, is described by Nietzsche both as decline from a supreme moment of human expression, and as the rescuing of that moment for modern discourses supposed to be non-dramatic.
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Similar vagaries of pitch arise through Carson's decision to replicate Aeschylean word-coinages, where two words are compounded into one.
Archive 2009-03-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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Also, what Albin Lesky wrote in '65 may bear upon the progression under discussion in terms of the character-flaw conundrum: Aeschylean tragedy shows faith in a sublime and just world order, and is in fact inconceivable without it.
Soul man ... Frank Wilson 2008
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I, on the other hand, angered him by talking as if art existed for emotion only, and for refutation he would quote the close of the Aeschylean Trilogy,42 the trial of Orestes on the Acropolis.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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I, on the other hand, angered him by talking as if art existed for emotion only, and for refutation he would quote the close of the Aeschylean Trilogy,42 the trial of Orestes on the Acropolis.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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I, on the other hand, angered him by talking as if art existed for emotion only, and for refutation he would quote the close of the Aeschylean Trilogy,42 the trial of Orestes on the Acropolis.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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I, on the other hand, angered him by talking as if art existed for emotion only, and for refutation he would quote the close of the Aeschylean Trilogy,42 the trial of Orestes on the Acropolis.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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If the Aeschylean conception of sōphrosynē can be glossed by the Apolline “Nothing in excess” and “Think mortal thoughts,” the Sophoclean virtue is closer to
Dictionary of the History of Ideas HELEN F. NORTH 1968
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Aeschylean tragedy, which consistently links ophros - ynē with a set of desirable qualities (justice, piety, freedom, masculinity) and opposes it to arrogance, unrestrained emotionalism, immoderate behavior, and other forms of hybris.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas HELEN F. NORTH 1968
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