The Proper Study: Essays on Western ClassicsQuentin Anderson, Joseph Anthony Mazzeo |
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Page 51
... Aeschylus ' Oresteia . Few poetic works of antiquity have elicited more weighty comments of the historical , philological , and anthropological variety ... AESCHYLUS ESCHYLUS , [ 51 ] AESCHYLUS Introduction to the Oresteia RICHMOND LATTIMORE.
... Aeschylus ' Oresteia . Few poetic works of antiquity have elicited more weighty comments of the historical , philological , and anthropological variety ... AESCHYLUS ESCHYLUS , [ 51 ] AESCHYLUS Introduction to the Oresteia RICHMOND LATTIMORE.
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... Aeschylus much as America has attracted Eng- lish men of letters from Dickens , Thackeray , and Wilde down to the present day . We do not know much about the personal character of Aeschylus and can make little critical use of what we do ...
... Aeschylus much as America has attracted Eng- lish men of letters from Dickens , Thackeray , and Wilde down to the present day . We do not know much about the personal character of Aeschylus and can make little critical use of what we do ...
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... Aeschylus : " Tell me , why should a poet be admired ? " Aeschylus ' basically aesthetic criticisms of the prologues , choruses , and other elements of Euripidean tragedy , though brilliantly witty , and though so vivid and concrete ...
... Aeschylus : " Tell me , why should a poet be admired ? " Aeschylus ' basically aesthetic criticisms of the prologues , choruses , and other elements of Euripidean tragedy , though brilliantly witty , and though so vivid and concrete ...
Contents
HOMER The Iliad or The Poem of Force | 3 |
HOMER Odysseus Scar | 30 |
AESCHYLUS Introduction to the Oresteia | 51 |
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