Word: aeschylus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kenneth Clark. She usually remained mute about her generosities with money and time, but the helpful annotating of Biographer Lewis and his wife Nancy fills in many gaps. She read extensively and exhaustively in a number of languages; in one letter she casually mentions enjoying a new translation of Aeschylus into German. She was often quite funny, even naughty; she writes of seeing a ballerina, noted for dancing barefoot and suggestively unclothed, "even to the most intimate interstices of her person...
...Greeks held so firmly to their past that we forget how far back they had to reach for it. It is easy to lose sight of the long centuries -- there were eight of them -- that separate the heroes of the Trojan War from the age of Socrates and Aeschylus, which paid homage to them. Much of what lay between was not an unbroken line of glory but a dim interregnum. The Mycenaean Greece that leveled Troy around 1200 B.C. was itself in ruins a hundred years later, smashed by Dorian invaders from the north. There followed a dark age that...
Henrichs, chairman of the Classics Department, said he and Scullion will focus on the use of religion in works of Greek tragedy by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripedes...
...bizarre theater: from Paul Warner's Rocky Horroresque stylistics to Kevin Jennings' psychedelically lit social messages, the Mainstage and the HRDC have self-marginalized themselves with a Spartacist zeal. In a recent effort to make the Mainstage more accessible as well as more profitable, Shakespeare and Bernstein have replaced Aeschylus in drag...
...interesting theater happening on campus can be traced to either Rauch or Warner. Take, for instance, the spring of their sophomore year. On the Loeb Mainstage, Warner was sparking anticipation, controversy, and eventually furious critical disapproval with a vast and intricate and blindingly tinselled version of Aeschylus's Agamemnon--a sort of high-tech extravaganza in which Clytaemnestra rode an electric wheelchair, the murdered king appeared as a scrawny kid in giant shoulder pads, and the Chorus donned shades and bopped to a syncopated beat...