Aeschylus: The Complete Plays Vol. II
Aeschylus, Hugh Denard, Carl Mueller (Translator)
Publisher: Smith & Kraus
ISBN: 1575253135
DDC: 882.01
Edition: Paperback; 2002-10
Summary:
Aeschylean tragedy represents the earliest extant Greek tragedy of
the late-6th and 5th centuries B.C.E., as well as being one of the
pinnacles of the art form. It is the product of an Athens that in the
late 6th century devised and implemented a form of government known
as democracy; not of a parliamentary or representative sort, but a
direct democracy, one in which the Athenian citizen governed himself,
which is what democracy means: rule by the people. Along with this
gift to civilzation came trial by jury, and from there the flowering
of a culture whose achievement has led the world ever since:
Philosophy, sculpture, architecture, poetry--and by no means
least--theater. Aeschylus loved Athens, and in particular its
achievement in government, to such a degree that no matter in what
time his plays are set--at the point just after Time begins, in the
days of the Homeric hero, or in his own time--there is always Athens,
or Athens' image, and her glory, primarily in regard to justice. In
many respects Aeschylus served as Athens' conscience as well as the
profoundest expositor of her greatness.
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