Word: aeschylus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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FitzGerald returned to his Suffolk solitude, where he wrote his little-known translations of Aeschylus and Sophocles. As he aged, he became one of the county sights-a "tall, sad-faced elderly gentleman ... in an ill-fitting suit. . . blue spectacles on nose and an old cape. . . ." He lived to see his Rubaiyat become famous, but died (1883) a couple of decades before its fame became "a mania which swept the world" and posed a literary question that still engrosses Rubaiyat lovers : How much of Omar is Omar and how much is FitzGerald...
...speak several languages miserably in a baroque drama by a rococco Slovene mystic. Shakespeare and Jonson may seem hackneyed to the man whose camp-chair bears the words "Director," but they are being done weekly in the classroom with great success. And in the whole range of drama from Aeschylus to O'Neill are plays that will make theater-going something other than a trial by ordeal...
...Comparative Literature 3a, where meetings every other Wednesday afternoon have seen the readings of Aeschylus' "Agamemnon" and Sophoeles' "Antigone," the dramatic effect is achieved, it is said, despite the weaknesses of translation. Both the Elizabethan and Greek performances are models that might be copied not only by drama courses, but by all classes in poetic literature. The use of recordings, of readings, and of full-scale theatrical productions can solidify and shape subjects that suffer in their current linear presentation...
...kind of books I like, I might just as well be in the grocery business," said Mr. G. C. Cairnie, a thin-haired gentleman who runs the atelier-type Grolier Book Shoppe on upper Plympton Street. Cairnie's tastes, a hasty inspection of the shelves revealed, range from Aeschylus to Zweig, not excluding Upton Sinclair, Sinclair Lewis, and Lewis Mumford. "Of course, I don't do a tremendous business," the attic entreprenur claimed, as he frightened off a young Radcliffe studen looking for a volume of Muzzey's "American History," slightly used, "but it's a living...
Geometricians of Virtue. "This retribution, which has a geometrical rigor, which operates automatically to penalize the abuse of force, was the main subject of Greek thought. It is the soul of the epic. Under the name of Nemesis, it functions as the mainspring of Aeschylus' tragedies. To the Pythagoreans, to Socrates and Plato, it was the jumping-off point of speculation upon the nature of man and the universe. Wherever Hellenism has penetrated, we find the idea of it familiar. . . . The Occident, however, has lost it, and no longer even has a word to express...