Aes·chy·lus

(ĕs′kə-ləs, ē′skə-) 525-456 bc.

Greek tragic dramatist whose plays were the first to include two actors in addition to the chorus. Only 7 of his 90 dramas survive, including the Oresteia trilogy (458).

Aes′chy·le′an (-lē′ən) adj.

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Aeschylean - of or relating to or in the manner of Aeschylus

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"Justice" was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Aeschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess.

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Since the dawn of Western literature, the name of Clytemnestra, wife of Agamemnon and Queen of Mycenae, has been declined time after time as a very prolific metronymic with variable spellings, Aeschylean wordplays, and everlasting meanings.

Clytemnestra Returns: A Philosophical Inquiry into her Moral Identity in Colm Toibin's House of Names

principles similar to these Aeschylean insights (for example, in the

Wild Justice

Dalloway (1925), and The Waves (1931) as a feminist "Aeschylean trilogy" (108) that exposes and censures such a mentality.

Virginia Woolf, Charles Darwin, and the Rebirth of Tragedy

Among their topics are morbid materialism: the matter of the corpse in Euripides' Alcestis, weapons as friends and foes in Sophocles' Ajax and Euripides' Heracles, the other side of the mirror: reflection and reversal in Euripides' Hecuba, the boon and the woe: friendship and the ethics of affect in Sophocles' Philoctetes, and speaking sights and seen sounds in Aeschylean tragedy.

The Materialities of Greek Tragedy: Objects and Affect in Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides

The International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama 2018 plans to tell many tales but the one on the schedule this week is the Aeschylean tragedy Agamemnon, directed by the internationally renowned Cezaris Grauzinis for two performances at Curium Ancient Theatre.

A red carpet welcome turns into murder

suggesting links with the Aeschylean pair of murderers and the

Introduction: The Tyrant's Fear

regarding the Aeschylean tokens, Torrance (2013, 28) argues,

Simulation, Violence, and Resistance in Euripides' Helen

Thackeray moderates the Aeschylean "iron scourge" of the goddess into a "ferule," and although the original ode does not expressly set her on a throne, she still seems, as the "Daughter of Jove," to deserve the honor.

Eighteenth-century allusions in Henry Esmond

'Aeschylean Anthropogony and Sophoclean Self-Creation

Alternatives to representative democracy and capitalist market organisation: The wintukua, guardians of the earth