Word: aeschylus
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...things to all men; he is the same thing to all men, a gentleman and a scholar. If a Greek piano-tuner visited his house professionally, Mr. Baker would learn all about the insides of a piano and the piano-tuner would hear about Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides...
...topic of Mr. Hamilton's speech will be "The Trend of Contemporary Drama." Mr. Hamilton, a writer and lecturer on the Stage, and Professor of Dramatics at Columbia, in his many books has not confined his attention to the present period but has ranged all the way from Aeschylus to Eugene O'Neill and from Aristophanes to George M. Cohan. Four of his volumes of dramatic criticism are published in a uniform series by Henry Holt and Company; these are "The Theory of the Theatre," "Studies in Stagecraft," "Problems of the Playwright," and "Seen on the Stage." His most recent...
Another lecture of more than usual interest will be Professor Gulick's on "Oedipus the King" in Greek 11 at 12 o'clock in Sever 26. Of the trinity of Greek writers of tragedy, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripedes, Sophocles is generally regarded as the greatest. He lacks the stiffness, yet retains the force of Aeschylus, and although he does not have the breadth and finesse of Euripedes, he does not lose the power which Euripedes, in his development of the tragedy has lost...
Time has only added to the glory of the man who was recognized in his time as the greatest of the trinity of tragedians that flourished in Periclean Athens: The work of Sophocles finds the mean between the rather conservative religions views of Aeschylus and the radical thought of Euripides Similarly, the Sophoclean style strikes a compromising note equally removed from the grandiose sublimity of his predecessor and from the freer and more popular handling of the theme in the plays of Euripides. At 12 o'clock today, in Sever 26, Professor Gulick will speak of the tragic poet...
...Aeschylus' Chephoroe," Professor Gulick, Greek 11, Sever...