Word: aeschylus
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...first dress rehearsal of the "Agamemnon" of Aeschylus, the Greek play, which will be produced by members of the University under the auspices of the Classical Department in the Stadium on June 16 and 19, was held in the Stadium yesterday afternoon. From now on, rehearsals of the entire company will be held in the Stadium daily in preparation for the public dress rehearsal, which will be held next Thursday at 2.30 o'clock. This will be followed by two regular performances, the first on Saturday, June 16, and the second on Tuesday, June...
Yesterday afternoon Professor H. W. Smyth '78 of the Greek Department, who is one of the three professors in charge of the Greek Play, gave a lecture on "The Agamemnon of Aeschylus." After sketching the plot of the drama and outlining the dramatic characteristics of the poet, and of the time in which the play was written, Professor Smyth read a number of selections from Professor Goodwin's translation and criticised the important dramatis personae...
...first 800 verses of Aeschylus' poem, most of them in the form of choral odes, make a kind of moral prologue. It may sometimes seem to us that the plot does not advance with sufficient rapidity; at other moments the author seems to bridge over the past and present, disregarding the unity of time. He makes Agamemnon appear at home the morning after Troy was captured. This, Dr. Verrall and other critics consider a monstrous heresy in regrad to unity. But the sheer length of the choral odes creates a sense of the passage of time, so that no incongruity...
...LECTURE. "The Agamemnon of Aeschylus." Professor Herbert Weir Smyth. New Lecture Hall...
...LECTURE. "The Agamemnon of Aeschylus." Professor Herbert Weir Smyth. New Lecture Hall...