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What does /lit/ think of this tragedian? What are your favorite plays by him? Pseuds need not reply.

>> No.14510338

That's the dude who was killed when a tortoise was dropped on his cranium?

>> No.14510341

I’ve only read the Oresteia Trilogy but it was brilliant. I’ve never read anything like it before. The man was truly profound. I plan on reading Prometheus next.

>> No.14510393

>>14510338
How tragic.

>> No.14510456
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>>14510325
the ruler against which all future tragedians must be measured. Never shall I forget Clytaemestra's speeches in Agamemnon and never shall I forget the universal wisdom that is spouted from the chorus' mouths.

>One must suffer to become wise

>> No.14510475

>>14510341
Truly, the ending of eye for an eye law in Greece, and destruction of blood feuds via creation of the courts. The old ways being buried just like the furies

>> No.14510499

>>14510325
How did the Greeks get their beards to be so thick? Is there a trick? I can barely grow a bearded woman wispy ensemble.

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>>14510325
>Aeschylus is the ancient mystery become man. Something like a pagan prophet. His work, had we all of it, would be a sort of Greek Bible. A hecatoncheires poet, having an Orestes far more fatal than Ulysses, a far more immense Thebes than Troy, hard like rock, tumultuous like foam, filled with steep cliffs, torrents and precipices, and so giant that, sometimes, you could say he becomes a mountain. Having arrived later than Homer, one could still say he was Homer's ancestor.

>> No.14510681

>>14510499
My beard looks like this. I have not shaved in over 10 years though, just keep it trim.

>> No.14510912

>>14510475
>being buried
No, no. Driven underground.

>> No.14510996

>>14510681
Pics? 10 years is a long ass time.

>> No.14511176

>>14510475
The furies weren’t buried, they were transmuted into benefic goddesses

>> No.14511324

>>14511176
And then they were put underground, marking the burial of law by retaliation

>> No.14511830

>>14510539

This.

For me he is a kind of proto-Shakespeare. The greatest master of metaphor in world literature before the advent of Shakespeare.

>> No.14511923

Agamemnon.
Moses Hadas Translation.
> For all this there must be paid to the gods a memorable return, even as the fine is great, which our wrath hath taken, since for one woman stolen a city hath been laid level by the fierce beast of Argos, the foal of the horse, the folk of the shield, that launched himself with a leap in the season of the Pleiads' fall. Over the wall he sprang and, like a lion fleshed, lapped his fill of proud princes' blood.

>> No.14511939

>>14510996
>10 years is a long ass time
Not really.

>> No.14512391

>>14510341
I like the Oresteia but I'm reading Electra as Euripedes' version.
>>14511830
There's a lot of parallels, especially if you compare Hamlet to Orestes.