The House of Atreus - Classic Reprint Author:E. D. A. Morshead PREFACE — JESCHYLUS, son uf Euphorion, an Athenian of the — deme of Eleusis, was born, B.C. 525. He consecrated — his life ~o the tragic art from his youth upwards: yet — he is held to have been a valiant foldier, and with his — brother Cynegirus to have fought at Marathon, and — at Salamis, and at Platrea as some say. Afterwards, — being at variance w... more »ith the Athrlial.s, he went away
from them unto Sicily, and dwelt at the court of
Hiero, tyrant of Gela, and was held by him in high
honour. He died in his sixty-ninth year by a strange
fate, whereof he had been warned in an oracle, saying
A stroke from heaven shall slay thee. For as he was
walking on the shore, an eagle, that had snatched up
a tortoise into the air, let it drop; and it fell upon
him, and he died.
Such is almost all that we are told, and more than
we can be said to know certainly, of the life of the
poet, whose masterpiece I have done my best to
render into English verse, with the :nope of helping one or two of those
Table of Contents
CONTENTS; PAGE; _&nMEMNON 1; THE LIBATION -BEA~ERS 79; THE FURIES 135
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