Word: aeschylus
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...Burton of Dartmouth will give Classical Philology 72, a half-course on the topography of Rome, and 46, an historical study of Livy. Greek 9 will be given as a full course instead of a half-course. Professor Goodwin will give two new courses on Aristotle and Aeschylus during the first half-year, Classical Philology 27 and 66. Another new course will be Greek 17, a study of four plays and their influence on subsequent art and literature, by Mr. Harris. Classical Philology 29, a half-course on Greek religion which was given four years ago, will be given again...
...principal contribution to the November Monthly is a poem, "Prometheus Pyrphoros," by J. T. Stickney '95. The poem is an attempt to imagine what was contained in a lost play by Aeschylus. The versification, however, which is almost entirely of blank form, does not follow the model of the ancients. Instead of ten syllables to a verse there are more often eleven, with now and then a passage in rhyme. The style as a whole is very subtle and obscure. The basis of the poem is the fable of Prometheus: He attempts to bring light and fire to the people...
...that, in fact, the Greek theatre had no stage at all. His arguments, richly enforced by plans and photographs upon the screen, were based in large part upon an examination of the remains of the Greek Dionysiac Theatre at Athens, the cradle, as it were, of the drama, where Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides were first brought out. In the earliest period there was only a simple, circular area; the spectators sat upon rows of wooden benches. To Aeschylus, near the beginning of the fifth century, was due the introduction, upon the edge of this circular area of a wooden...
...conclusion, Professor Doerpfeld showed how a Greek play, under these conditions, would have been brought out, and selected the Suppliants of Aeschylus for detailed illustration. The lecture was profusely illustrated by many beautiful lantern slides...
...AEschylus guilty of impiety...