Driggs boy shoots bear on family's porch Nov 17, 2009
BookId=SKU-000083883# " whynotisgay wrote on Nov 16, 2009 9:34 AM:" Aeschylus - Yeah, because that's what we should be discussing ... " bearkiller wrote on Nov 16, 2009 9:16 AM:" I KILL BEARS. " Aeschylus wrote on Nov 16, 2009 8:58 AM:" "Petersen said officials may have had to put it down anyway.". (Rexburg Standard Journal, ID)
Did Thucydides Really Tell the Truth? Oct 20, 2009
Modern readers are often shocked to learn that the Athenianscitizens of a free city who defeated the Persians when they invaded Greece, built the Parthenon, and staged the tragedies of Aeschylus and Sophoclesalso massacred the citizens not of an enemy state but of a neutral power. Ancient readers were also shocked when they learned this story from the same source: Thucydides, the exiled general who recorded the atrocity, and the dialogue that preceded it, in an account that is in many ways... (Slate)
Reading List: Fall & Winter 2009 ... Oct 19, 2009
Reading List: Fall r 2009 2010, Part 1. Reading List: Fall & Winter 2009 2010, Part 1. (Suite101.com)
Gore Vidal: US will have a dictatorship soon Oct 5, 2009
I ll respond with a quote from Aeschylus: Call no man happy till he is dead. Your Comments. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Will the Manhattan Project Always Exist? by Sam Kean, 3 Quarks Daily Oct 1, 2009
Few works were better known in ancient times than the plays of Sophocles and Aeschylus, yet barely any exist now. Even Plato barely survived historys guillotinethroughout medieval times, Plato was unknown in the West, living on only in Muslim countries and in footnotes to other Greek authors. (Harper's Magazine)
Book on Pat Tillman has political tones Sep 24, 2009
And yet as Aeschylus said, "In war, Truth is the first casualty.". HonoluluAdvertiser. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Head Ball Coach needs to show patience against Georgia Sep 9, 2009
Aeschylus -Great blog handle. Cuz -Keeping in the spirit of the blind Homer, I see. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
When Truth and Beauty Clash Jun 28, 2009
Aeschylus divinities are arbitrary and vengeful, and even though Athena establishes the first human court of law, it s hard not to feel that mankind is well put being rid of her and in its own hands. The gods, in myth, are so flawed, so often despicable, so frequently violating the taboos of Greek society (compare incest among the gods to incest among Greeks - remember how it turned out for that Oedipus fellow. (The American Conservative)
THE WHOLE FIVE FEET May 10, 2009
On Perspective: As his beloved, ailing Aunt Mimi moves into his family apartment on the Upper East Side, Beha tackles ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus' famed trilogy on dynastic tragedy. Beha finds solace in the book's dark sensibility, which mirrors his own mood: "The important point was that other people, long before, had wrestled with the same problems that troubled me. Their answers could not be my answers, but it mattered that we struggled together, each in our ways.". (New York Post -- Opinions)
Oriental Institute takes Persian Empire into digital age May 1, 2009
The oldest Greek tragedy of Aeschylus, and the first Greek history of Herodotus tell us about the reign of Darius, but they don t tell us anything like this. The administration that these documents record touched every level of society, from lowly workers through bureaucrats and governors to the royal family itself, he said. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
CSI is raining turtles and skydivers Apr 10, 2009
While they watch the arrest on TV, Ray starts pontificating about Aeschylus, which leads him back to Holy Steven. Turns out a bird of prey dropped a turtle on his bald head, thinking it was a boulder. (MSNBC -- News)
Cal State to present modern take on Greek classic Apr 9, 2009
For many college theater students, the works of the ancient playwrights such as Aeschylus and Socrates are just Greek to them ... That's why he decided to direct an adaptation of Aeschylus' "The Suppliants." ... "One colleague suggested 'Big Love,' an adaptation of the Aeschylus play. I liked it because it's accessible enough.". (North County Times)
When did booing originate? Feb 8, 2009
Probably back in Ancient Greece, when such forms of audience participation were encouraged - leading the playwright Aeschylus to complain "Everybody's a critic!" But if the Greeks had a word for it, it wasn't "booing", which dates from the 18th century and is one of those lovely imitative words in the English language that reflects the sound it represents. Garth Clarke, North Sydney. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
