Aeschylus Books
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Prometheus Bound
[english | ]Aeschylus
Summary: [v. 1. Chronological outline of the life of schylos. The Persians. The seven who fought against Thebes. Prometheus bound. The suppliants.--v. 2. Agamemnon. The libation-pourers. Eumenides. Fragments. Rhymed choruses from Agamemnon The libation-pourers. Eumenides.]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 186
Prometheus Bound And Seven Against Thebes
[english | 1897]Aeschylus
Summary: [v. 1. Chronological outline of the life of schylos. The Persians. The seven who fought against Thebes. Prometheus bound. The suppliants.--v. 2. Agamemnon. The libation-pourers. Eumenides. Fragments. Rhymed choruses from Agamemnon The libation-pourers. Eumenides.]
Genres: [drama] Downloads: 256
The Agamemnon Of Aeschylus
[english | ]Aeschylus
Excerpts: [... ancient blinded vengeance and the wrong that amendeth wrong. Every wrong is justly punished yet, as the world goes, every punishment becomes a new ...... lyrics in Greek tragedy and even of the tragic myths themselves and recent writers have shown how the same idea touches the very heart of the traditional ...... anguish lonely, eddying wide,. Great wings like oars in the waste of ...]
Genres: [poetry | harvard classics] Downloads: 353
The House Of Atreus
[english | ]Aeschylus
Summary: [I. A little book of western verse. II. A little book of profitable tales. III. Second book of verse. IV. Poems of childhood. V. The holy cross and other tales. VI. Echoes from the Sabine farm. Translations from Horace VII. The love affairs of a bibliomaniac. VIII. The house an episode in the lives of Reuben Baker astronomer and of his wife Alice. IX. Songs and other verse. X. Second books of]
Genres: [drama | classic | poetry] Downloads: 265
The Orestia
[english | ]Aeschylus
Summary: [Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose work has survived the others being Sophocles and Euripides and is often recognized as the father of tragedy. His name derives from the Greek word aiskhos (??????) meaning shame. According to Aristotle he expanded the number of characters in plays to allow for conflict among them previously characters interacted only with the ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 470
The Persians
[english | ]Aeschylus
Excerpts: [... CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY ATOSSA, widow of Darius and mother of XERXES MESSENGER ...... Unequall'd in the works of war Shake with their thund'ring steeds the ensanguined plain, Dreadful the hostile walls surround, And lay their ...... I sigh For while in foreign fields they fight, Our towns exposed to wild affright An easy prey to the invader lie: Where, mighty ...... his mighty ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 234
The Seven Against Thebes
[english | ]Aeschylus
Summary: [v. 1. Chronological outline of the life of schylos. The Persians. The seven who fought against Thebes. Prometheus bound. The suppliants.--v. 2. Agamemnon. The libation-pourers. Eumenides. Fragments. Rhymed choruses from Agamemnon The libation-pourers. Eumenides.]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 3
The Suppliants
[english | ]Aeschylus
Summary: [Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose work has survived the others being Sophocles and Euripides and is often recognized as the father of tragedy. His name derives from the Greek word aiskhos (??????) meaning shame. According to Aristotle he expanded the number of characters in plays to allow for conflict among them previously characters interacted only with the ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 278