Word: aeschylus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House of Atreus is an adaptation by John Lewin of Aeschylus' trilogy, The Oresteia. Agamemnon has sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia to win from the gods a favoring wind that will speed his fleet to Troy. Mad with grief and fury, his Queen, Clytemnestra, awaits the return of the victorious King from the Trojan War, and while he is in his bath she stabs him to death. Aided by his sister Electra, Agamemnon's son Orestes in turn murders both his mother and her lover Aegisthus. Pursued by the Furies, Orestes is tried before the goddess of Athens...
Never an intellectual, Bobby nonetheless read a great deal, particularly after Dallas. While Jack would read simply for delight, Bobby would always choose a writer who had something practical to tell him. Aeschylus, who introduced the tragic hero to literature, was his "favorite poet." On the death of Martin Luther King Jr., he used the lines: "Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God." Asked once why he strove so hard, Kennedy again quoted from Aeschylus: "When...
...directions are in Latin, the musical indications are in Italian, so the libretto should be in-right, ancient Greek. The plot is Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, the story of a Titan who was chained to a rock in Scythia, so the setting should be-right, a jungle...
...Aeschylus to Altizer. Scott, who has a B.A. in English literature and a Ph.D. in religion from Columbia University, is a leading exemplar of a fast-growing speciality in U.S. seminaries and universities: the joint study of literature and theology. Pioneered by Chicago, which inaugurated its first course in the field in 1950, literature-and-theol-ogy is now being offered by eight other U.S. universities and divinity schools...
Taught mostly at the graduate level, the programs require students to be as familiar with secular writing as sacred. At the Methodists' Emory University in Atlanta, the first-year curriculum includes a study of drama from Aeschylus to Shakespeare; next spring, the university's celebrated Christian atheist, Thomas Altizer, will lecture on the theological and artistic expression of nihilism, concentrating on Baudelaire, Kazantzakis and Nietzsche...