Cratinus was a highly successful writer of Attic Old Comedy, but the very fragmentary nature of his surviving plays means that he is not as well remembered as Aristophanes (eleven of whose plays come down to us intact). https://www.worldhistory.org/article/794/the-plays-of-cratinus/ #History #Aeschylus #Aristophanes #Cratinus

I don't remember this from Aeschylus . . .

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The play Libation Bearers was written by one of the greatest of all Greek tragedians Aeschylus (c. https://www.worldhistory.org/Libation_Bearers/ #History #Aeschylus #AgamemnonPlay #ElectrabyEuripides

The play Agamemnon was written by one of the greatest Greek tragedians Aeschylus (c. https://www.worldhistory.org/Agamemnon_(Play)/ #History #Aeschylus #AgamemnonPerson #AgamemnonPlay

Greek theatre began in the 6th century BCE in Athens with the performance of tragedy plays at religious festivals. https://www.worldhistory.org/Greek_Theatre/ #History #Aeschylus #Ajax[Play] #Andromache

The ancient Greeks built open-air theatres where the public could watch the performances of Greek comedy, tragedy, and satyr plays. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/895/greek-theatre-architecture/ #History #Aeschylus #AgamemnonPlay #Ajax[Play]

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen
#Aeschylus

Today's Poem:

The Decree of Athena
- by Aeschylus

https://at.tumblr.com/ukdamo/the-decree-of-athena/w77z6znjk9s6

#athena #decree #judgement #aeropagus #assembly #aeschylus #court #council #hill #athens #poetry

Cratinus was a highly successful writer of Attic Old Comedy, but the very fragmentary nature of his surviving plays means that he is not as well remembered as Aristophanes (eleven of whose plays come down to us intact). Despite this, it is possible to uncover significant information regarding this sometimes forgotten comic poet by looking at his own comic fragments, what Aristophanes says about...https://www.worldhistory.org/article/794/the-plays-of-cratinus/ #Aeschylus #Aristophanes #Cratinus

The play Agamemnon was written by one of the greatest Greek tragedians Aeschylus (c. 525 – 455 BCE), “Father of Greek Tragedy.” Older than both Sophocles and Euripides, he was the most popular and influential of all tragedians of his era. Winning first prize at the Dionysia competition in 458 BCE, Agamemnon was the first play in a trilogy The Oresteia; the remaining two tragedies were Libation ...https://www.worldhistory.org/Agamemnon_(Play)/ #Aeschylus #AgamemnonPerson #AgamemnonPlay

"The first casualty of war is truth." - Aeschylus

#quotes #inspiration #war #truth #aeschylus

The play Agamemnon was written by one of the greatest Greek tragedians Aeschylus (c. 525 – 455 BCE), “Father of Greek Tragedy.” Older than both Sophocles and Euripides, he was the most popular and influential of all tragedians of his era. Winning first prize at the Dionysia competition in 458 BCE, Agamemnon was the first play in a trilogy The Oresteia; the remaining two tragedies were Libation ...https://www.worldhistory.org/Agamemnon_(Play)/ #Aeschylus #AgamemnonPerson #AgamemnonPlay

"Why is Shakespeare *only* an artist (though the first) and Aeschylus inspired? Why is Greek art not art but inspiration? I have always felt, though it is a treason in an Englishman to say so, when I have opened Shakespeare, this is *only* art. I shall never open this book except at a leisure moment, never open it to fit me for the struggles which convulse our lives... There are many inferior artists, far, far inferior artists to Shakespeare, who have had a higher ideal, especially in regard to women, than his. With the exception of his Brutus’s wife (and perhaps Isabella), I don’t know one of his women who lives for anything but her personal hopes and fears. But Aeschylus, who will degrade him?"

Florence Nightingale (letter to her sister Parthenope [29 April 1850])

Image: The Oresteia at HOME Manchester (2005)

#quote #florencenightingale #letter #literature #poetry #theatre #tragedy #shakespeare #aeschylus #gender

On the war between #Russia and #Ukraine first of all a centuries-old quote from #Aeschylus, keywords #truth and #casualty.
https://quotepark.com/quotes/1942458-aeschylus-in-war-truth-is-the-first-casualty/

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen
#Aeschylus