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    tried to kill Aeschylus on the spot but he fled the scene. Heracleides of Pontus asserts that the audience tried to stone Aeschylus. Aeschylus took refuge...
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  • name Aeschylus: Aeschylus (с. 525/524-c. 456/455 BC), Athenian playwright of the 5th century BC, best known for the Oresteia trilogy Aeschylus of Athens...
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    Oresteia (redirect from Proteus (Aeschylus))
    (Ancient Greek: Ὀρέστεια) is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BCE, concerning the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra...
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    religiosity. So, for instance, in Aeschylus, Zeus always has the role of ethical thinking and action. Musically Aeschylus remains tied to the nomoi, rhythmic...
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    Suppliants - Aeschylus - Ancient Greece - Classical Literature". Ancient Literature. Retrieved 5 January 2021. "Suppliants by Aeschylus". www.greekmythology...
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    of Aeschylus' work, meaning that he went through a phase of imitating Aeschylus' style but is finished with that. Sophocles' opinion of Aeschylus was...
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    Erinyes (section Aeschylus)
    "Here we have another reference to Erinus (Fh 390)..." Aeschylus, Libation Beaers 1048 Aeschylus Eumenides 34-59 Euripides [Orestes (play)|Orestes] 317;...
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    era of greater Athens were Aeschylus and Plato. The two men wrote in highly distinctive forms of expression which for Aeschylus centered on his mastery of...
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    win her love by means of the gift of seeing the future. According to Aeschylus, she promised him her favours, but after receiving the gift, she went...
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    Seven Against Thebes was rewritten about fifty years after Aeschylus' death. While Aeschylus wrote his play to end with somber mourning for the dead brothers...
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    answers while Aeschylus provides more practical advice, and Dionysus decides to take Aeschylus back instead of Euripides. Pluto allows Aeschylus to return...
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    plays by Aeschylus, Alfieri, Voltaire, Hofmannsthal, and Eugene O'Neill. She is a vengeful soul in The Libation Bearers, the second play of Aeschylus' Oresteia...
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    Chmielewski 2016, pp. 186–187. Chmielewski 2016, pp. 185–186. Aeschylus (?), Prometheus Bound in Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph...
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    (c. 480 – c. 406 BC) was a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom...
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    Themis (section Aeschylus)
    Moirai are instead called the offspring of Nyx (Night). Aeschylus, The Eumenides in Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph....
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    and classical periods of Greek literature, particularly in the works of Aeschylus, Aeschines and Plato. The nature of the relationship between Achilles...
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    The Persians (category Plays by Aeschylus)
    Salamis. Given Aeschylus' propensity for writing connected trilogies, the theme of divine retribution may connect the three. Aeschylus himself had fought...
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  • Aeschylus Poulos is a Canadian film producer. He is most noted as a producer of the films My Tree, which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best...
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    Odyssey 11.385–465 Archived 2022-03-19 at the Wayback Machine. Aeschylus, Agamemnon in Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D...
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    Prometheus Bound (category Plays by Aeschylus)
    romanized: Promētheús Desmṓtēs) is an ancient Greek tragedy traditionally attributed to Aeschylus and thought to have been composed sometime between 479 BC and the terminus...
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  • Eumenides 415 ff. Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 400 ff. Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 691 ff. Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 69 ff. Aeschylus, Seven Against...
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  • simply one actor, the protagonist, and a chorus of dancers. The playwright Aeschylus introduced the deuteragonist; Aristotle says in his Poetics: Καὶ τό τε...
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  • the Prometheia trilogy attributed to the 5th-century BC Greek tragedian Aeschylus, thought to have followed Prometheus Bound. Prometheus Unbound was probably...
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    Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, and the half-sister of Helen of Troy. In Aeschylus' Oresteia, she murders Agamemnon – said by Euripides to be her second...
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  • Aeschylus (Ancient Greek: Αισχύλος) of Rhodes was appointed by Alexander the Great one of the inspectors of the governors of that country after its conquest...
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    suggests griffin or hippocamp. Aeschylus (?), Prometheus Bound 290–299. Aeschylus (?), Prometheus Bound 301–303. Aeschylus (?), Prometheus Bound 332–333...
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  • to Persephone Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 225. Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 223–225. Pausanias, 7.19.7, 7.21.7, 7.24.3. Aeschylus, translated in...
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  • Aeschylus of Alexandria (Greek Αισχύλος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς) was an epic poet who must have lived before the end of the 2nd century, and whom Athenaeus calls...
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    fragments by several ancient Greek poets including Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, Aeschylus and Euripides. However, the most popular version of the legend comes from...
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    Orestes (section Aeschylus)
    and Strophius. The story of Orestes was the subject of the Oresteia of Aeschylus (Agamemnon, Choephori, Eumenides), of the Electra of Sophocles, and of...
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