Tag Archives: Aeschylus

Socrates And Martin Luther King: Lessons in Civil Disobedience

Written by Van Bryan, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom At the opening of the Crito, a dialogue by the philosopher Plato, Socrates has been imprisoned. He is awaiting his execution for the supposed crimes of corrupting the youth and believing in strange gods. However, it is only by chance that Socrates is still alive, trapped in his

Written on June 26, 2020 at 6:00 am, by Van Bryan

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Categories: Politics

Tags: Aeschylus, Civil disobedience, Crito, Injustice, Justice, MLK, Nonviolence, Plato, socrates

Aeschylus Speaks To Me

Written By Walter Borden, M.D., Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Aeschylus speaks to me. Born in Eleusis, a village just north of Athens and the haunting grounds of the goddess Demeter, said to be the goddess of fertility and the harvest. To Aeschylus that was just a myth that masked her true identity—the goddess of grief.

Written on June 12, 2020 at 8:40 am, by Alex Barrientos

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Categories: Theater

Tags: Aeschylus, Aeschylus tragedy, Ancient greek tragedy, Athenian Democracy, Greek Tragedy, Oresteia, Persephone, Psychiatry, psychology, The Persians, Tragedy

The Most Unbelievable Deaths of the Ancient World

Written by Visnja Bojovic, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Never have I thought as much about how difficult being a judge must be, as when I was completing this difficult task of choosing only a few among the cornucopia of surprising and absurd deaths attested by ancient sources! A lot of things in our lives revolve

Written on February 21, 2020 at 11:00 am, by Visnja Bojovic

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Categories: People

Tags: Aeschylus, Antiphanes, Chrysippus, Crassus, Draco, Draco's code of Law, Empedocles, Pythagoras

The Murder of Agamemnon: Birth of Modern Justice

Written by Stella Samaras, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Weekly “The poet’s grace, the singer’s fire, Grow with his years; and I can still speak truth With the clear ring the God’s inspire…” Aeschylus, Chorus from Agamemnon In 458 BCE, the aging Aeschylus was a contender at the Dionysia. Athens, although enjoying peace between the Persian

Written on December 13, 2019 at 10:00 am, by Stella Samaras

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Categories: Theater

Tags: Aeschylus, Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, orestes, The Cursed House of Atreus

Electra – Powerful or Pathetic?

It was the fifth century Athenian tragedians who recognised the brutal power of the Electra story. Despite being little more than a footnote to Homer, this torrid tale of a sister and brother (Orestes) taking revenge their mother (Clytemnestra) for the murder of their father (Agamemnon) is rich in dramatic content. In particular, Electra herself

Written on August 25, 2019 at 9:41 am, by Ben Potter

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Categories: Mythology

Tags: Aeschylus, electra, Euripides, orestes, Sophocles

Agamemnon and The Cursed House of Atreus

Agamemnon, was the first of a trilogy of plays (the Oresteia), performed back to back during the Great Dionysia of 458BC; it focused on two generations of ‘The Cursed House of Atreus’. Regular readers will be well-aware of the bad blood flowing through, and often out of, the members of this unfortunate dynasty. Tantalus (grandfather

Written on August 18, 2019 at 9:03 am, by Ben Potter

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Categories: Mythology

Tags: Aeschylus, Agamemnon, Ancient Greek play, Cassandra, Clytemnestra, orestes, Oretes, The Cursed House of Atreus, Tragedy