Aeschylus
['i:skiləs]
Definition
(noun.) Greek tragedian; the father of Greek tragic drama (525-456 BC).
Edited by Georgina--From WordNet
Examples
- And at his side let us place the just man in his nobleness and simplicity, wishing, as Aeschylus says, to be and not to seem good. Plato. The Republic.
- They had no Themistocles, or Pericles, or Aeschylus, or Sophocles, or Socrates, or Plato. Plato. The Republic.
- Next, let us look at another man who, as Aeschylus says, 'Is set over against another State;' or rather, as our plan requires, begin with the State. Plato. The Republic.
- Why not, as Aeschylus says, utter the word which rises to our lips? Plato. The Republic.
- Away with the lying dream of Agamemnon in Homer, and the accusation of Thetis against Apollo in Aeschylus. Plato. The Republic.
- What the Greeks only suspected we know well; what their Aeschylus imagined our nursery children feel. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- There was no 'second or third' to Aeschylus and Sophocles in the generation which followed them. Plato. The Republic.
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