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...which there was a separate scene. On the stage were represented in turn a terrace looking towards the abode of the Delphic Oracle, the shrine of a Doric temple with the Furies lying about asleep, the temple of Pallas built in the Ionic style, and the summit of the Areopagus. The scenery is said to have been on the whole, very effective...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aeschylus' "Eumenides," | 1/18/1886 | See Source »

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