Crossword-Solution: AESCHYLUS
We have 10 clues for the answer “AESCHYLUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "Prometheus Bound" playwright | 1 answer |
| Dramatist who influenced O'Neill | 1 answer |
| Father of Greek tragic drama. | 1 answer |
| GREEK composer | 1 answer |
| Greek "father of tragedy" | 1 answer |
| Ancient Greek tragedian credited with introducing the second actor | 1 answer |
| the father of Greek tragic drama | 1 answer |
| GREEK tragedian | 2 answers |
| Greek dramatist. | 3 answers |
| AGAMEMNON AUTHOR | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with AESCHYLUS (5)
Having selected Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, which was viewable in Greek and English pretty much in the same segments together, MYLONAS demonstrated tools to use with the Greek text, something not possible with a book: looking up the dictionary entry form of an unfamiliar word in Greek after subjecting it to Perseus' morphological analysis for all the texts.
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.
For all poets since the time of AEschylus, who could not write until he was too drunken to walk, have been most readily seduced by whatever stimulus most tended to heighten their imaginings; so that for the sake of a song's perfection they have freely resorted to divers artificial inspirations, and very often without evincing any undue squeamishness.
Five hundred years before Christ, in the bloom period of thought--the period of Aeschylus, Phidias, Pericles, Socrates, and Plato--appeared Hippocrates, one of the greatest names in history.
Against the walls were suspended the horns of the stag that Shakespeare shot; and on the floor lay the ponderous shell of the tortoise which fell upon the head of Aeschylus.
Quotes with AESCHYLUS (3)
Aeschylus writes, "In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grade of God.
I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that Sound if erratic is still my greatest pride, because I would rather write like a dancer shaking my ass to boogaloo inside my head, and perhaps reach only readers who like to use books to shake their asses, than to be or write for the man cloistered in a closet somewhere reading Aeschylus while this stupefying world careens crazily past his waxy windows toward its …
Reading list (1972 edition)[edit]1. Homer — Iliad, Odyssey2. The Old Testament3. Aeschylus — Tragedies4. Sophocles — Tragedies5. Herodotus — Histories6. Euripides — Tragedies7. Thucydides — History of the Peloponnesian War8. Hippocrates — Medical Writings9. Aristophanes — Comedies10. Plato — Dialogues11. Aristotle — Works12. Epicurus — Letter to Herodotus; Letter to Menoecus13. Euclid — Elements14. Archimedes — Works15. Apollonius of Perga — Conic Sections16. Cicero — Works17…
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1958–2017).