Word: aeschylus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worn, most people admire it. When Broadway roared last season at Jean Giraudoux's Amphitryon 38, it was really patting some forgotten Greek dramatist on the back for his Amphitryon 1. When Broadway flocked to O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra, it was saluting Aeschylus' Oresteia with a Down-East accent. And given practically straight, Aristophanes' lewd, witty Lysistrata proved a Broadway...
Language and Literature: Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Lucian, the Old Testament, Horace, Ovid, Livy, Virgil, the New Testament, Quintilian, Dante, Volsunga Saga, the Song of Roland, Chaucer, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Milton, Rabelais, Corneille, Racine, Molière, Erasmus., Montaigne, Montesquieu, Grotius...
...read. In the joyless task of selecting the best, Editors Oates and O'Neill unaccountably passed up two excellent modern translations: Sophocles' Oedipus the King by William Butler Yeats, Euripides' Alcestis by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. Otherwise, their handsome and handy collection presents all of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides in about the best light available. More interesting to most readers will be ten "anonymous" translations of Aristophanes in which that playwright's obscenity is done full justice for the first time in contemporary English. Though "anonymous." these versions apparently owe much of their modern flavor...
...Since Aeschylus the Theatre's incipient collapse has been frequently forecast and occasionally, as in England from Sheridan to Pinero, the Theatre has been prostrate for long periods. While realistic observers at the Astor did not consider the U. S. Theatre's case hopeless, nevertheless the fact that as many as 1,000 people, most of whose livelihoods stem from the stage, should formally assemble to consider its condition, indicated a state of affairs grave indeed...
...cart and donkey twenty minutes from here and you're at one of the largest ancient Greek Theatres where Pindar read his poetry, Aeschylus gave the first performance of one of his plays and Plato mused and looked at the sea. And wasn't Archimedes a son of Syracuse? And didn't Simonides and Epichamos and Bacchylides grace the city with their presence...