Both Uses of
Aeschylus
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- There was nothing down to poor poetry,—properly speaking, that which persisted in vegetating in manuscripts,—which was not forced, in order to make something of itself, to come and frame itself in the edifice in the shape of a hymn or of prose; the same part, after all, which the tragedies of AEschylus had played in the sacerdotal festivals of Greece; Genesis, in the temple of Solomon.†
Chpt 1.5.2
- 'tis an anapaest of AEschylus which expresses grief perfectly.†
Chpt 2.7.4 *
Definition:
ancient Greek writer of tragic drama often referred to as the father of tragedy (525-456 BC)