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Aeschylus
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    The Agamemnon of Aeschylus is based on this legend.†  (source)
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    The novel is Faulkner's version of Aeschylus's Oresteia (458 B.C.), the tragedy of the returning soldiers from Troy and revenge and destruction on a mythic scale.†  (source)
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    In fact, Aeschylus he found sublime—and dull: he could not understand his great reputation.†  (source)
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    Jesus Christ made a pun on St. Peter, Moses on Isaac, AEschylus on Polynices, Cleopatra on Octavius.†  (source)
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    Why should AEschylus have sung two thousand years before Shakespeare was born?†  (source)
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    Aeschylus (translated) the same.†  (source)
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    Amory, lately I reread Aeschylus and there in the divine irony of the "Agamemnon" I find the only answer to this bitter age—all the world tumbled about our ears, and the closest parallel ages back in that hopeless resignation.†  (source)
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    The student may read Homer or AEschylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that he in some measure emulate their heroes, and consecrate morning hours to their pages.†  (source)
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    Meanwhile I will read, as soon as I am settled in Christminster, the books I have not been able to get hold of here: Livy, Tacitus, Herodotus, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes—†  (source)
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    Ah, my boy, it is not only woman's love that is [two greek words omitted] as old AEschylus calls it.†  (source)
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    'tis an anapaest of AEschylus which expresses grief perfectly.†  (source)
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    What the Greeks only suspected we know well; what their Aeschylus imagined our nursery children feel.†  (source)
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    He saw the grandeur of the Prometheus fable—but the fable moved him more than the play of Aeschylus.†  (source)
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