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- Greek tragic dramatist whose plays were the first to include two actors in addition to the chorus. Only 7 of his 90 dramas survive, including the Oresteia trilogy (458).
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Greek dramatic poet (525 BC - 456 BC); Aeschylus was the earliest of the three greatest Greektragedians . - proper noun historical A male
given name .
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- noun Greek tragedian; the father of Greek tragic drama (525-456 BC)
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From classic Greece he names Aeschylus [Footnote: R.C. Robbins, _Poems of Personality_ (1909); C.le Young Rice, _Aeschylus. _] and Euripides.
The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Elizabeth Atkins
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As the dictum numina resolves the ruptura monstrum in Aeschylus’s Oresteia, here the monstrum dicta is resolved by its complement — Dionysus as the ruptura numen, in all his transgressive glory.
Archive 2009-06-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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As the dictum numina resolves the ruptura monstrum in Aeschylus’s Oresteia, here the monstrum dicta is resolved by its complement — Dionysus as the ruptura numen, in all his transgressive glory.
Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality Hal Duncan 2009
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Well, if you can read through the overlay of history and fantasy, the story as told in Aeschylus’s “Prometheus Bound” is right there in front of you.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Hal Duncan 2006
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In part two, Cassandra, doomed by Apollo to prophesy truth to disbelievers and brought as a slave by Agamemnon from Troy, foresees that she will be murdered along with her oppressor, and yet (still recalling Aeschylus): in she went to the knife, to the killer wife to the net over her slaver, the Troy reaver, saying, 'A wipe of the sponge, that's it.
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I had, moreover, recently made a tragic acquaintance with the Greek Drama in the person of a scoundrel called Aeschylus, whose sickening lucubrations I was forced to learn by heart, and now and then to copy out, a hundred lines at a time, till I grew to detest him.
Boycotted And Other Stories Talbot Baines Reed 1872
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Intriguingly, some of his dialogue is directly lifted from contemporary sources such as Aeschylus or later commentators like Plutarch for added effect.
300 Adam Whitehead 2008
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The woman is a tragedy herself, such as Aeschylus never dreamed of.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various
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'Aeschylus' bronze-throat eagle-bark for blood, 'which compensates for the more than Greek -- unintelligibility of
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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With reference to Kālidāsa, he holds a position such as Aeschylus holds with reference to Euripides.
The Little Clay Cart Mrcchakatika Arthur William Ryder 1907
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