Word: aeschylus
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...used in Greek 7, 8, and 9 are not published in this country, and students are advised to order their books now. In Course 7 the Demosthenes De Falsa Legatione by Shilleto or Heslop is recommended; in Course 7, Plato's Phaedrus by Thompson, and in Course 9, Aeschylus Septem Contra Thebem by Paley...
PROFESSOR GOODWIN began reading the Agamemnon of Aeschylus at Harvard Hall, last Wednesday evening. He will finish the play in three successive readings...
...laid out in history or philosophy or mathematics for men who have tastes in that direction only? It is not claimed that the establishment of such a department would raise up in our midst another Emerson or Lowell; but, genius or no genius, intimacy with the immortal thoughts of AEschylus, Plato, Dante, and a crowd of lesser luminaries, cannot fail to brighten and cheer our own feeble and faint steps. With proper restrictions such a course might be made thorough and exhausting; while by a judicious admixture of the history of the writers, their influence, predecessors, etc., a more comprehensive...
...stand, or we should be tempted into speaking perhaps with unbecoming warmth of our departed friends' many excellences. But we cannot but remember that it was the class which threw so much life into some of the highest literary courses in college. If we remember rightly, Greek 9 (AEschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes, and Pindar) in Seventy-six's hands seemed on its last legs until Seventy-seven raised it again into one of the most successful, even in a numerical point of view, of all Greek courses. The study of Cervantes, Dante, and of Old French literature received an impulse from...
...well enough, since they stimulate literary activity without involving cramming; but why examinations of the partial character announced should be made the object of intercollegiate contest it is hard to see. They call forth work, but not of the right kind. To examine a man on a play of AEschylus and orations of Demosthenes and AEschines cannot make him a broad Greek scholar, but will only force him to cram these subjects till he knows them by heart. Such an examination is no test of his ability to read the language. Again, it is necessary for a well-educated...