Word: aeschylus
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...play was first represented in 431 B. C., when it gained the third prize only, being judged inferior to the works of Sophocles and of Euphorion, the son of Aeschylus. This shows the comparative popularity of the authors more than the real literary merits of the pieces...
Each body, then, must make out his own list as he goes. But at the outset, a man may safely take those which the whole world has decisively stamped as the best. These would be Homer, Virgil, aeschylus, and Sophocles and. beyond all doubt, Aristophanes; Lucre tires, and Plato. In the middle ages, the Divine Comedy which has most perfectly expressed their thought and their emotions; the prelude to this, Dante's Vita Nuova; the Life of St. Louis, by Joinville, the Romance of the Cid, and the Arthurian Romances. In later times the number of names really great...
...Prometheus Fired" treats of the old athletic question in a very new and original manner. Portions of this socalled lost Play of Aeschylus are very clever and well written. The work is, however, very uneven in point of merit. The charge of the Archon Eponymous is by far the brightest and best written scene of the play. The plot lacks continuity and hence fails to some extent in its purpose...
CLASSICAL LANGUAGES. 1. Discuss the plan of the battle of Salamis and the movement of the Persians that preceded it. 2. Why does Aeschylus make Argos, not Mycenae, the home of Agamemnon? 3. Discuss the effect of appeals to sympathy and gratitude upon impartial justice at Athens...
Those who witnessed the performance of the "Oedipus Tyrannus" of Sophocles in Sanders a few years ago, and indeed all who are in any way acquainted with the Greek drama will be interested in hearing of the recent presentation at Cambridge, England, of Aeschylus' "Eumenides...