Word: aeschylus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aeschylus' Chephoroe," Professor Gulick, Greek 11, Sever...
...Aeschylus and the author of the Book of Job were at their ascendancy at about the same time, like two great morning stars of the world's literature. Each is important because in his work there is felt for the first time in the literatures of the world the spiritual awakening of mankind. Each cries, in the anguish of a tortured soul against the injustice of fate and of God, and that cry is symbolic of the first upward step in the sipitham progress...
Today at 12 o'clock in Sever '26 Professor Gulick will speak in Gulick 11 of the "Prometheus Bound" of Aeschylus, one of the most intense and moving of the early week tragedy...
...race of students bereft of all but a slight acquaintance with the Greek and Latin authors prescribed by the College Board Examinations, he discovers Herodotus, Thucydides, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Plato and Aristotle to us as living men. There comes with him a realization of what we have missed in escaping from the classical tradition...
...longer did the popular religion have its prestige, and with the lapse of this religion, tragedy lapsed also. No longer did the legends of gods and heroes, the basis of the work of Sophocles and Aeschylus, hold their place in Athenian culture. No longer was this culture of a kind qualified to fully enjoy "too Chaste deal tragedy...