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"Ah, ah! You handmaidens, look at them there: like Gorgons, wrapped in sable garments, entwined with swarming snakes! I can stay no longer."
-Orestes on being pursued by the Furies in Aeschylus' "Libation Bearers," trans. Herbert Weir Smyth.

Art by John Singer Sargent (1921).

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2020-02-26

Whoever is new to power is always harsh...Aeschylus

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2020-02-05

Aeschylus - Red Eyes and Tears by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

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"Losing the reasons to breathe I never lived
I'm losing the reasons to breathe I never lived"

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2020-01-28

My favourite Georgian painter, genial George Romney, was a Boxing Day baby (1734). Most famous for painting fellow working-class north-westerner Emma Hamilton as Greek witches (Circe, Calpyso) he also drew scenes from Aeschylus' tragedies.

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2019-12-26

Ancient Greek Tragedy 

Greek tragedy was a popular and influential form of drama performed in theatres across ancient Greece from the late 6th century BCE. The most famous playwrights of the genre were Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides...

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2019-11-24

today i give you... Aeschylus with Beard

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2019-07-30

Everyone's favorite worm with a name no one can spell, Aeschylus!☠️

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2019-07-06

Theban or 'swollen foot' appears in many works including &

Oedipus, Svetlin Vassilev, pubblished in the book Greek Mythology, 2006.

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2018-08-19