How To Use Aeschylus In A Sentence
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The man who does ill must suffer ill. Aeschylus
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The woman is a tragedy herself, such as Aeschylus never dreamed of.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859
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The Athenian playwright Aeschylus tells us that among the Persian commanders who were killed during this war, was a cavalry leader 'on a mail-clad horse' called Arsaces ( Persians 996).
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Intriguingly, some of his dialogue is directly lifted from contemporary sources such as Aeschylus or later commentators like Plutarch for added effect.
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The only trilogy intact today is Aeschylus' Orestia, which describes the tragic story of the House of Atreus after Agamemnon's triumphant return.
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In the Aristophanes original, Aeschylus and Euripides debated over which of the two was the best tragedian.
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They were not philosophers, for they spoke the language of feeling; but the civilization of which they were the strongest outcome was already tinged with influences derived from early philosophy -- especially from the gnomic wisdom of the sixth century and from the spirit of theosophic speculation, which in Aeschylus goes far even to recast mythology.
The Seven Plays in English Verse
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Aeschylus was reputedly killed by a tortoise that a lammergeier had dropped on his head; the thought made me draw my head into my shoulder.
A Year on the Wing
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The challenge of translating the richness and complexity of Aeschylus's language into a poetically charged but sayable English that was still faithful to the original Greek did indeed distract me from the pain that I was living through.
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Neither the life of anarchy nor the life enslaved by tyrants, no, worship neither. Strike the balance all in all and god will give you power. Aeschylus
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PF, in the course of his troubadouresque wanderings, has washed up for the night here in Peekskill, where he has brought to my attention the remarkable Douglas Young translations from Greek into Scots, in particular his translation of The Frogs which he called The Puddocks by Aristophanes:Aeschylus will heave his verses, ruit and word, and gar them flee, breenge, and skail the monie stourbaths whaur he rowes his poesie.
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As Aeschylus and other tragedians appreciated, words could be used to make what is false appear true and what was true false.
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Few men have the Natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy. Aeschylus
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Seneca produced his own versions of tragedies by Sophocles, Euripides, and Aeschylus.
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From classic Greece he names Aeschylus [Footnote: R.C. Robbins, _Poems of Personality_ (1909); C.le Young Rice, _Aeschylus. _] and Euripides.
The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years
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The back-to-back "avails" were show-stopping scenes in a play now enthralling New York: a saga of sex, power and disease, with echoes of Aeschylus and "As the World Turns.
Sex And The City
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When a man is willing and eager, the gods join in. Aeschylus
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It was a keen disappointment, as I was hoping to see both little N. Aeschylus and Miss Fiske for the very first time, and I wanted the little shaver to play Baby Jesus in our traditional Nativity pantomime tableau.
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The master had forged - and sold handsomely - holograph letters from Aeschylus to Pythagoras and Alexander to Aristotle, among many others.
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It was Aeschylus who recast him as suffering hero and enemy of divine tyranny, crucified on a crag in the Caucasus where Zeus's eagle tore at his vitals.
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Besides a few minor quibbles such as the Aeschylus quote or some "snogging" (how I hate that word!), and besides also the magic, which I insist be discussed as a separate issue, the opponents of the series will note a very, very serious moral flaw, and they will be entirely correct in pointing it out and condemning it.
Book Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow. Aeschylus
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'Aeschylus' bronze-throat eagle-bark for blood, 'which compensates for the more than Greek -- unintelligibility of
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
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This huge opera is nothing less than a setting in Russian of almost the entire plot of the trilogy of Aeschylus.
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Memory is the mother of all wisdom. Aeschylus
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Wisdom comes through suffering. Aeschylus
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In addition to Frogs with its face-off between Aeschylus and Euripides there is the more obscure Women Celebrating the Thesmophoria, which calls mimêsis a disruption of life and opposes it to nature.
Plato's Aesthetics
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Aeschylus, it seems to me, is willing, just as Shakespeare is, to risk the prosperity of a verse upon a lucky throw of words, which may come up the sices of hardy metaphor or the ambsace of conceit.
Among My Books First Series
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What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest? Aeschylus
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Well, if you can read through the overlay of history and fantasy, the story as told in Aeschylus’s “Prometheus Bound” is right there in front of you.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Hal Duncan
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I had, moreover, recently made a tragic acquaintance with the Greek Drama in the person of a scoundrel called Aeschylus, whose sickening lucubrations I was forced to learn by heart, and now and then to copy out, a hundred lines at a time, till I grew to detest him.
Boycotted And Other Stories
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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. Aeschylus
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A mythic narrative whose classic statement is found in the play by Aeschylus (467 BC) concerning the battle between the Seven led by Polynices, traditional Theban enemies, and the army of Thebes headed by Eteocles and his supporters.
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-- 'For my own part,' he at once replied, 'I look upon Aeschylus as the first of poets, for his verses roll superbly; 'tis nothing but incoherence, bombast and turgidness.'
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1
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Many of Aeschylus' productions were connected ‘tetralogies’, comprising three tragedies presenting successive episodes of a single story (a ‘trilogy’) followed by a satyr-play based on part of the same or a related myth.
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The old view, espoused by Aeschylus and Shakespeare and many in between, was that good drama must involve royalty or nobility.
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In the selection of his models, his choice fell upon the older Greek writers, such as Empedocles, Aeschylus, Thucydides, men renowned for deep thought rather than elegant expression; and among the Romans, upon Ennius and Pacuvius, the giants of a ruder past.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
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From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow. Aeschylus
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[Greek: -- liphon eponumon te reuma kai petraerephae autoktit 'antra.] -- AESCHYLUS: _Prometheus Bound_.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
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Only through suffering do we learn. Aeschylus
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The wrinkled child of a warrior culture, Aeschylus may have sincerely believed that Marathon represented his finest hour.
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In war, truth is the first casualty. Aeschylus
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Introductions (attributed to Aristophanes) to some plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, based on the Didascaliae (lists of dramatic productions) of Aristotle and on Peripatetic research, are extant in an abbreviated form.
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Like a master's black-figure vase are the plays of Aeschylus, stiff of form, archaic, and sublime of aesthetics.
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The mellow brains of Aeschylus spilled out like honey on the path below.
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Thus the Greek phrase leuke hemera, or leukon himar (AEschylus, Pers. 305), is commonly derived from a custom ascribed to the Scythians or Thracians, of indicating each happy day which they spent with a white stone placed in an urn, each unhappy with a black.
Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia.
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Upton had just been telling Eric the splendid phrase, "anerhithmon gelasma ponton", which he had stumbled upon in an Aeschylus lesson that morning, and they were trying which would hit on the best rendering of it.
Eric, or Little by Little
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In part two, Cassandra, doomed by Apollo to prophesy truth to disbelievers and brought as a slave by Agamemnon from Troy, foresees that she will be murdered along with her oppressor, and yet (still recalling Aeschylus): in she went to the knife, to the killer wife to the net over her slaver, the Troy reaver, saying, 'A wipe of the sponge, that's it.
Insight: Poetic Visions of the Past
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In the years thereafter, Aeschylus found his muse and became one of the three celebrated 5th-century-BC Athenian tragedians, alongside Sophocles and Euripides.
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What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest? Aeschylus
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The idea is not of much help in reading Aeschylus and of intermittent usefulness in Euripides.
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The staggering fact is that for centuries the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides went virtually unperformed on the British stage.
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On the whole, Lefkowitz steers by more familiar landmarks, including the great classical dramatists like Aeschylus and Sophocles among her poets.
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It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. Aeschylus
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The most notable of the playwrights are Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles.
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PF, in the course of his troubadouresque wanderings, has washed up for the night here in Peekskill, where he has brought to my attention the remarkable Douglas Young translations from Greek into Scots, in particular his translation of The Frogs which he called The Puddocks by Aristophanes:Aeschylus will heave his verses, ruit and word, and gar them flee, breenge, and skail the monie stourbaths whaur he rowes his poesie.
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As the dictum numina resolves the ruptura monstrum in Aeschylus’s Oresteia, here the monstrum dicta is resolved by its complement — Dionysus as the ruptura numen, in all his transgressive glory.
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For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life. Aeschylus
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Born around 524 or 525 B.C. in the city of Eleusis near Athens, the Greek dramatist Aeschylus is known as the first great tragedian.
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With reference to Kālidāsa, he holds a position such as Aeschylus holds with reference to Euripides.
The Little Clay Cart Mrcchakatika
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The word parrhesia, however, is to be found neither in Pindar, nor in Aeschylus and Sophocles, and first appears in Euripides 'Hippolytus (line 422; performed in 428 B.C.) and Ion (lines 672, 675; of uncertain date).
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
