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Page 1088
... Aeschylus and Sophocles are a sublime expression of man's break- through into moral awareness of his situation . Among Roman authors an elevated Stoicism stressing the sense of duty is common to many , from Naevius , Ennius , and Cato ...
... Aeschylus and Sophocles are a sublime expression of man's break- through into moral awareness of his situation . Among Roman authors an elevated Stoicism stressing the sense of duty is common to many , from Naevius , Ennius , and Cato ...
Page 1090
... Aeschylus and reached its cul- mination with Sophocles and Euripides in the second half of the 5th century . Aristophanes , the greatest of the comic poets , lived on into the 4th century , but the Old Comedy did not survive the fall of ...
... Aeschylus and reached its cul- mination with Sophocles and Euripides in the second half of the 5th century . Aristophanes , the greatest of the comic poets , lived on into the 4th century , but the Old Comedy did not survive the fall of ...
Page 1092
... Aeschylus , unlike later poets , usually made of his three tragedies of tragedies a dramatic whole , treating a single story , as in Aeschylus , the Oresteia , the only complete trilogy that has survived . Sophocles , His main concern ...
... Aeschylus , unlike later poets , usually made of his three tragedies of tragedies a dramatic whole , treating a single story , as in Aeschylus , the Oresteia , the only complete trilogy that has survived . Sophocles , His main concern ...
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