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    tried to kill Aeschylus on the spot but he fled the scene. Heracleides of Pontus asserts that the audience tried to stone Aeschylus. Aeschylus took refuge...
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  • name Aeschylus: Aeschylus (с. 525/524-c. 456/455 BC), Athenian playwright of the 5th century BC, best known for the Oresteia trilogy Aeschylus of Athens...
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    Oresteia (redirect from Proteus (Aeschylus))
    (Ancient Greek: Ὀρέστεια) is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BCE, concerning the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra...
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    Suppliants - Aeschylus - Ancient Greece - Classical Literature". Ancient Literature. Retrieved 5 January 2021. "Suppliants by Aeschylus". www.greekmythology...
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    Seven Against Thebes was rewritten about fifty years after Aeschylus' death. While Aeschylus wrote his play to end with somber mourning for the dead brothers...
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    religiosity. So, for instance, in Aeschylus, Zeus always has the role of ethical thinking and action. Musically Aeschylus remains tied to the nomoi, rhythmic...
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    Erinyes (section Aeschylus)
    "Here we have another reference to Erinus (Fh 390)..." Aeschylus, Libation Beaers 1048 Aeschylus Eumenides 34-59 Euripides [Orestes (play)|Orestes] 317;...
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    of Aeschylus' work, meaning that he went through a phase of imitating Aeschylus' style but is finished with that. Sophocles' opinion of Aeschylus was...
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    win her love by means of the gift of seeing the future. According to Aeschylus, she promised him her favours, but after receiving the gift, she went...
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    adjudicates a fierce debate between Euripides and Aeschylus for the underworld's throne of tragic drama. Aeschylus wins due to his pragmatism, and Dionysus ends...
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    era of greater Athens were Aeschylus and Plato. The two men wrote in highly distinctive forms of expression which for Aeschylus centered on his mastery of...
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    Chmielewski 2016, pp. 186–187. Chmielewski 2016, pp. 185–186. Aeschylus (?), Prometheus Bound in Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph...
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    plays by Aeschylus, Alfieri, Voltaire, Hofmannsthal, and Eugene O'Neill. She is a vengeful soul in The Libation Bearers, the second play of Aeschylus' Oresteia...
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    Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, and the half-sister of Helen of Troy. In Aeschylus' Oresteia, she murders Agamemnon – said by Euripides to be her second...
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    2021-06-04. Homer, Odyssey 3:266 Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1381–1385 Archived 2022-03-19 at the Wayback Machine. Aeschylus. Oresteia. Edited by C. (Christopher)...
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     480 – c. 406 BC) was a Greek tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom...
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    Themis (section Aeschylus)
    Moirai are instead called the offspring of Nyx (Night). Aeschylus, The Eumenides in Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph....
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    The Persians (category Plays by Aeschylus)
    Salamis. Given Aeschylus' propensity for writing connected trilogies, the theme of divine retribution may connect the three. Aeschylus himself had fought...
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    Orestes (section Aeschylus)
    threads of much older works. In particular Orestes plays a main role in Aeschylus' Oresteia. The Greek name Ὀρέστης, having become "Orestēs" in Latin and...
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    Prometheus Bound (category Plays by Aeschylus)
    romanized: Promētheús Desmṓtēs) is an ancient Greek tragedy traditionally attributed to Aeschylus and thought to have been composed sometime between 479 BC and the terminus...
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    the Prometheia trilogy attributed to the 5th-century BC Greek tragedian Aeschylus, thought to have followed Prometheus Bound. Prometheus Unbound was probably...
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  • Aeschylus of Alexandria (Greek Αισχύλος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς) was an epic poet who must have lived before the end of the 2nd century, and whom Athenaeus calls...
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  • Aeschylus Poulos is a Canadian film producer. He is most noted as a producer of the films My Tree, which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best...
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    and classical periods of Greek literature, particularly in the works of Aeschylus, Aeschines and Plato. Some contemporary critics, especially in the field...
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  • Wayback Machine. The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) 1st Edition by Aeschylus (Author), Peter Burian (Editor)...
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  • Eumenides 415 ff. Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 400 ff. Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 691 ff. Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 69 ff. Aeschylus, Seven Against...
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  • to Persephone Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 225. Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 223–225. Pausanias, 7.19.7, 7.21.7, 7.24.3. Aeschylus, translated in...
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    Medusa the daughter of Gorgon and Ceto. Sommerstein, p. 260, in Aeschylus. Fragments; Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 790–800 (pp. 530–531) with n. 94; Apollodorus...
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  • Otis, pp. 32–34. Scott, p. 54; Otis, p. 33; Aeschylus, Agamemnon 736. Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1372. Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1432–1433. Probably referring to...
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  • Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.17 "Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, line 244". www.perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved 2024-06-18. "Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, line 407"...
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