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... Aeschylus , Sophocles , and Euripides . As poets and artists they share equal rank . They are far from being musty names in scholarly books . They are individuals representing widely different views of the world . They can be pictured ...
... Aeschylus , Sophocles , and Euripides . As poets and artists they share equal rank . They are far from being musty names in scholarly books . They are individuals representing widely different views of the world . They can be pictured ...
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... Aeschylus were fond of making fun of him . A report was circulated among the parlor gossips of Athens that Aeschy- lus was killed by an eagle who mistook his bald head for a rock and dropped a tortoise on it to break the shell . None ...
... Aeschylus were fond of making fun of him . A report was circulated among the parlor gossips of Athens that Aeschy- lus was killed by an eagle who mistook his bald head for a rock and dropped a tortoise on it to break the shell . None ...
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... Aeschylus he often competed with him in the tragedy contests , having the remarkable success of defeating his great rival in his first con- test . Sophocles became enormously popular and truly flour- ished in Athens throughout a long ...
... Aeschylus he often competed with him in the tragedy contests , having the remarkable success of defeating his great rival in his first con- test . Sophocles became enormously popular and truly flour- ished in Athens throughout a long ...
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