This beloved son and the good man Æschylus are beside the mark.
With reference to these deities, the Greek artist, in particular, had an obscure feeling as to mutual dependency: and it is just in the Prometheus of Æschylus that this feeling is symbolised.
In Æschylus we perceive the terrified Zeus, apprehensive of his end, in alliance with the Titan.
Almost every individual hero was celebrated, and these songs were made by the acknowledged masters of the lyre, such as Æschylus and Simonides.
It is well known that no pregnant woman could look Æschylus in the face when the fit of inspiration was on him, without having cause to regret her indiscretion.
The King laments being obliged to resign the great pleasure it would have caused his Majesty to see the Æschylus choruses composed by you, but rejoices in the completion of the Sophocles trilogy, and also in that of “Athalie.
Your “Antigone” choruses are making the tour of Europe; those of Æschylus would do the same.
They had noble architects and sculptors; and Æschylus was writing the grandest of his tragedies—especially one about the despair of the Persian women—but only fragments of most of them have come down to our time.
There is one trilogy of Æschylus still preserved to us, where we have the death of Agamemnon, the vengeance of Orestes, and his expiation when pursued by the Furies, but the comedy belonging to them is lost.
It is, in all probability, one of the latest of the works of Æschylus (K.
The anti-anthropomorphism is further to be made out from the lines ascribed to Æschylus by Justin Martyr (De Monarchia, c.
In the Persae of Æschylus we even catch a glimpse of direct contact with foreign skepticism; [456] and again in the Agamemnon there is a reference to some impious one who denied that the Gods deigned to have care of mortals.
The story that Æschylus was nearly killed by a theatre audience on the score that he had divulged part of the mysteries in a tragedy (Haigh, The Attic Theatre, 1889, p.
Euripides are taken straight from Æschylus or the ritual, or both.
It was on the Gods, the struggles of the Gods, and on destiny that Æschylus dwelt; it is with man that Sophocles is concerned.
It should be observed that Pallas at the end of the Eumenides of the poet Æschylus released Orestes, who is pursued by the Furies, from the guilt of his mother's blood, by casting the decisive ballot in the court of Areiopagus.
Surely the wife had her wrongs as well as the husband, out of which double guilt Æschylus will construct his mighty tragedy.
An awe-inspiring tale of destiny; out of it Æschylus will develop his great tragedy, the Oresteia.
Orestes, however beneficent his deed in avenging his father, will not escape the counterstroke; Æschylus will send after him the Furies for the guilt of having murdered his mother.
He is second to none of the poets of Greece as the poet of boys; but he is far advanced before them all, even before Æschylus and Aristophanes, as the poet of men.
It was in this poem that Browning first adopted the Greek spelling of proper names, a practice which he has since carried out, with greater consistency, in his transcripts from Æschylus and Euripides.
In the sphere of art we may instance the Prometheia of Æschylus and the Parthenon.
Yet Æschylus was driven from Athens on a charge of impiety, and died in exile.
For Æschylus in his Philoctetes says, "The poisonous wound that eats my flesh.
And referring to a passage relating to Prometheus she asks: "And tell me, if Æschylus is not the divinest of all the divine Greek souls?
In Æschylus and Sophocles we find, besides the dramatic temperament, a large amount of the lyrical temperament, and a large amount of the meditative, but unaccompanied by metaphysical speculation.
After these plumes have been withdrawn, Stanley’s Æschylus will remain a great monument of critical learning.
When the Persian queen in Æschylus dreams the most startling dream of her life, it is obviously a vision constructed by the poet's intellect alone.
For my own part I confess that I find, in the passages of Æschylus cited with passages of Shakespeare, no more than happy coincidences in the thinking of two kindred original minds.
Fulchiron, his arms hung down, continues to walk abroad and through life, as Hamlet says, never doubting that if he is no Æschylus it is all owing to M.
An Æschylus or a Shakespeare, a Browning or a Dickens, conquers us with an abundance like nature's.
In recent years we have witnessed the much more significant assault by Tolstoy upon almost the whole army of the authors of the civilized world from Æschylus down to Mallarmé.
The chorus as employed by Æschylus is so artistically interwoven with the modern poetic form, both in the matter of rhyme and the length of the metre, that no portion of its quiet grandeur is lost.
Job succeeds Miriam, Æschylus succeeds Homer, Racine and Corneille take the place of the troubadours, and Byron succeeds Shakespeare.
The Prometheus Vinctus of Æschylus is not properly a drama; at least, it has so little of the peculiar interest belonging to that species of poetry, that it can hardly be called such.
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