The Tragedies of Aeschylos - 1894 Author:Aeschylus Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the reading or the rendering is more or less conjectural, and iu which therefore the student would do well to consult the notes of commentators. Passages which a... more »re regarded as spurious by editrtrs of authority are placed between brackets [ ]. It only remains that I should once again acknowledge my obligations to my friend the Eev. Charles Hole, for much help kindly given in the progress of my work through the press. 6th October, 1868. Note To The Second Edition.—The whole work has been subjected to revision. Additional notes have been added where they seemed necessary. I have thought it best to arrange the plays in their chronological order. 1andth December, 1873. THE TRAGEDIES OF ESCHYLOS chapter{Section 4LIFE OF jESCHYLOS. The materials for a life of .ZEschylos are like in kind and quantity to those which wo possess for a life of Sophocles. A brief anonymous memoir, written probably some four or five hundred years after his death,1 a few scattered faets in scholia and lexicons, a few anecdotes or allusions in contemporary, or all but contemporary, authors ; this is all we have to deal with.2 My purpose in this essay is to do for the older as I have done for the younger dramatist, to put these disjecta membra together in such an order as may best show what the man himself was, to illustrate them from the poet's own works, to throw light on them from the history of the period in which he lived. The birth of ZEschylos3 is fixed partly by dates given by Snidas and in the Arundel Inscriptions, partly by a conjeetural emendation of the text of the anony- (1) The memoir in question is prefixed to the Medicean MS. of the plays, and is to be found in most editions. It is the authority for all statements in the text for which no special reference is given. th...« less