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The Oresteia of Aeschylus / Robert Lowell

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Lowell, Robert, (, 1917-1977)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux , 1978Description: 129 p. ; 24 cmSubject(s):

DDC classification:

882 AES

Summary: Aeschylus (ca. 525-456 BCE), the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art forms, witnessed the establishment of democracy at Athens and fought against the Persians at Marathon. He won the tragic prize at the City Dionysia thirteen times between ca. 499 and 458, and in his later years was probably victorious almost every time he put on a production, though Sophocles beat him at least once. Of his total of about eighty plays, seven survive complete.

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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	882 AES (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		037130

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Aeschylus (ca. 525-456 BCE), the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art forms, witnessed the establishment of democracy at Athens and fought against the Persians at Marathon. He won the tragic prize at the City Dionysia thirteen times between ca. 499 and 458, and in his later years was probably victorious almost every time he put on a production, though Sophocles beat him at least once. Of his total of about eighty plays, seven survive complete.

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