Word: aeschylus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DAVID BEN-GURION: "The existence of Israel seems justified to me, [but] I feel Israel must show great caution toward the Arabs." Advising Ben-Gurion against expanding Israel's territory at Arab expense, he says: "Do not exaggerate! Subdue your pride, which, as Aeschylus says, 'is the son of happiness and devours his father...
...theme of learning through suffering, with the lesson that the just order of the community is a matter of reason. Thus self-control begins to replace violence as the benediction of the gods. The just, peaceful order of the community accompanies the reconciliation of male will with female fruition. Aeschylus introduces the distrust of violence. Eventually, the gods will dissolve sufficiently so that the power of action gives way to that of moral perception. Battlefield gives place to City. The great transformation of the heroic from the Hiad to the Orestcia to the Elizabethan Renaissance, was from Fate...
These plays are timeless precisely because man is changeless. After more than 2,000 years, the dramas of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides are the most scrupulously exact and eloquently moving accounts that Western man possesses of the nature of his destiny. Aeschylus' The Persians, which has been revived at Manhattan's St. George's Church, is one of the earliest of these tragedies (472 B.C.). Set before the tomb of Darius the Great shortly after the Battle of Salamis, in which the Persians were crushingly defeated by the Athenians, the play is a spoken song of lamentations...
...Aeschylus had fought at Salamis, as be had at Marathon where his brother was killed, and he knew war. While the play is intrinsically undramatic, it is a remarkable achievement, humanly speaking, in that a victor aches with the torment of the defeated, recounts the terrible battle deaths of the slain, shows their widows and mothers keening in desolate, inconsolable grief. It is a kind of reverse Henry V, as if Shakespeare had set his play in France after the Battle of Agincourt, put his words in the mouths of the tiny remnant of once-proud French survivors, and evoked...
...influence of Cecil B. DeMille" and self-serving nationalism, asserting that the truly essential events of history have probably gone unrecorded. Everyone knows the paltry date upon which Columbus first set foot in the New World, but who knows, Borges asks, the really important and prophetic moment when Aeschylus added a second actor to his stage-opening possibilities for dialogue and dramatic interaction...