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aeschylus
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Greek Aiskhylos , Athenian soldier, poet, and playwright, Father of Tragedy (525-456 B.C.E.).
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Aeschylus ( or ; Aiskhulos ; ; c. 525/524 – c. 456/455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian. His plays, alongside those of Sophocles and Euripides , are the only works of Classical Greek literature to have survived. He is often described as the father of ...
Usage examples of aeschylus.
No wonder poor old Aeschylus felt a bit sick when it fell on his head!
Even after centuries have passed, and though he should be an Aeschylus or a Tacitus, any one raising the cover would smell the stench.
The unprecedented drama was in five acts, so fierce that Aeschylus himself would not have dared to dream of them.
Nor were you a dramatist, so your thoughts were unlikely to have either the rigor or beauty of a philosophical dramatist such as Aeschylus or Sophocles.
Rhee Soon-Ka sat, unobserved, taking notes, for this was the kind of day she had long anticipated: as a modern Aeschylus, she knew what hubris was.
Greek city hardly twenty years after Aeschylus himself had fought the invading Persians at Salamis!
However, all tastes had to be catered for, so one small venue was reserved for highbrow drama by Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides.
When the once applauded dramatist Aeschylus lost a prize to the currently applauded Sophocles, he was so enraged that he left Athens for Sicily, where he came to a most satisfying end.
Aeschylus built a trilogy around Agamemnon, Sophocles built a trilogy about Oedipus, and so on.
Aeschylus warns me not to kick against the pricks, also Euripides and I believe Pindar, and if I were to check the New Testament I think I would find the injunction there as well, and so I obey, I kick not, even when the pricks are fiercest.