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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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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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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Seven Against Thebes (play) (redirect from Oedipus (Aeschylus))
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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Greek tragedy (section Aeschylus: the codification)
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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Cassandra (section Agamemnon by Aeschylus)
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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Coeliades aeschylus, the Senegal blue policeman, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Guinea...
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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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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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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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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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(c. 480 – c. 406 BC) was a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom...
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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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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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Achilles and Patroclus (section Aeschylus)
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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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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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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suggests griffin or hippocamp. Aeschylus (?), Prometheus Bound 290–299. Aeschylus (?), Prometheus Bound 301–303. Aeschylus (?), Prometheus Bound 332–333...
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Arae (section Aeschylus's accounts)
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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Aeschylus (Ancient Greek: Αισχύλος) of Rhodes was appointed by Alexander the Great one of the inspectors of the governors of that country after its conquest...
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Moros (section Aeschylus' account)
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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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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simply one actor, the protagonist, and a chorus of dancers. The playwright Aeschylus introduced the deuteragonist; Aristotle says in his Poetics: Καὶ τό τε...
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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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