Word: aeschylus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peak of God." A green, mountainous finger pointed eastward into Homer's Aegean, the Athos peninsula was thought sacred long before Jesus came on earth. Aeschylus refers to Athos as "the peak of God," and Christians quite happily modified the belief in their own way. According to one legend, a ship carrying the Virgin Mary to Cyprus was blown to Athos by a storm. When she arrived, the pagan idols spoke to the inhabitants, ordering them to pay homage to the Mother of God, who baptized them, and claimed the mountain as a gift from...
Within the black granite walls of the Stockholms Enskilda Bank is a coat of arms that bears a sober motto, borrowed from Aeschylus: Esse non Videri - to be, not to seem. In line with this injunction, the family that runs the bank has become the most powerful and wealthiest in Sweden, without seeming to be the fiscal princes they...
Move over, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Shakespeare, and make room for John McPhee. He well deserves a place among you, for in his penetrating study of Richard Burton, he has created a character in the heroic, tragic tradition of Prometheus, Oedipus, Orestes, and Hamlet...
...plausibly pelting long-distance pace, yet with breath enough to deliver quite stunningly and with graphic gestures the dreadful Messenger's Speech of the fleet storm-wrecked on it homeward voyage. Mr. Perley Noyes's Agamemnon was a king out of the Iliad, quite as intended by Aeschylus, and Mr. Alfred Longfellow Benshimol's Aegisthos, a brilliant, sparkling daredevil, jubilantly and dangerously off his guard...
...independent national sovereignties already obsolete? Are we not sick from centuries of mutual slaughter, heedless of our Cassandras, and only to be rescued from pursuing Furies by refuge in an orderly court of law where the wisdom of Pallas Athene can cast the deciding vote? Is the Oresteia of Aeschylus mere antiquarianism? Would that it were...