Word: aeschylus
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Professor Sikes is a classical scholar of high authority. In addition to having edited a number of works such as Aeschylus' "Prometheus Vinctus" and Homeric Hymns, he is the author of a book entitled. "The Anthropology of the Greeks," and another called "Hero and Leander," a translation in verse from the Greek...
...There is no one like Aeschylus or Goethe or Shakespere, but there are more fine minds and fine spirits working in the arts of the theatre than there have been in many generations, and there is every hope ahead...
...English poetical form. Beginning with the "Bac- chac" and "Electra", he completed nearly all of the existing plays by the Greek dramatist, and the verse translations were acted at the Court Theatre in London from 1902 to 1907. Other important books by the English classicist are his translations of Aeschylus and Aristophanes, "Hamlet and Orestes" in 1914, and "Euripides...
...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...
...First and Second Academic Art Theatres (i. e., the so-called "Moscow Art Theatre" recently brought to the U. S. by astute Morris Gest). The same repertoire with which they appeared in the U. S., likewise the Prometheus and Oresteia of Aeschylus, a. d. Shakespeare's Hamlet...