“... is not included in the Oxford Book, yet it is a mosaic of weirdly literal translations from Aeschylus and Sophocles. Lines like ‘sailing on horseback, or with feet for oars?’ are ludicrous but in a certain sense they are thoroughly Greek. If we want from a translation not just an extension of English literature but some notion of the way images and ...”

“... call her Venus). Yet at the same time we begin to feel, as we do not with the earlier drama of Aeschylus, that all this could be re-expressed in psychological language: Hippolytus is repressed and repression can lead to trauma. Bate brilliantly observes that the first act of The Winter’s Tale, which gives us the neurotic jealousy of Leontes, is strangely ...”

“... own poems since. She has, however, published translations of Euripides (Grief Lessons, 2006) and Aeschylus (An Oresteia, 2009). The closest precursor to Nox, though, must be If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (2002), whose facing-page versions present every surviving word that scholars believe Sappho wrote, from the world famous sentences, lines and stanzas ...”

“... would come to this if we once let ourselves in for an empire. If only Englishmen had known their Aeschylus a little better they wouldn’t have bustled about the world appropriating things. A gentleman may make a large fortune, but only a cad can look after it. It would have been so much pleasanter to live in a small community who knew Greek and played games ...”

“... began to dot his works in Italian as well as Latin: a summary of the Odyssey, a long passage from Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound, tales from the histories of Herodotus and Thucydides. Sometimes he found Greek materials in secondary sources or read them in translation. By the end of his life, however, as he collected the masses of material that fill On the Art ...”

“... in so short a span. In a compass of twenty years, an Athenian theatregoer could see new works by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Increased acquaintance with how literary matters are nowadays managed, under both state and private patronage, nationally and internationally, has shewn me that the real knockout of a miracle is that each of the three was (more ...”

“... Other specimens leave us bewildered: ‘I can accept Euripides and Sophocles, but I do not accept Aeschylus’; ‘I shall leave no Memoirs.’ Points are evidently being made, but we cannot tell what or why. Aphorisms and doctrinaire proclamations are being put to some new use.That use is making explicit a proposition latent in Maldoror: never believe what ...”

“... ancient literature was oral inasmuch as it was performed, but it could also be difficult, like Aeschylus, and complex, like Gorgias. Greek, in particular, is also very rich in dialects – Homer uses both Ionic and Aeolic – registers and tones. English is one of the very few languages that can match it for vocabulary and range. It seems a shame if ...”

“... things by rote, but to find the connections between disparate realities.’ One example involved Aeschylus and a plumbing manual. ‘You could make it be like a car collision,’ Antin said, or ‘you might want to slip things into each other, as if Aeschylus was being sodomised by the plumbing manual.’ Or the other way ...”

“... Hellenism, of Pythagoras and Plato … of Empedocles and Heraclitus, of Homer and Thucydides, of Aeschylus and Theocritus’. The young couple were in their element. H.D. had recently published ‘Sitalkis’, a Greek-accented work that reads like a love poem to Aldington and was (she recalled) bound up with her time in the Reading Room; he had published a ...”

“... In ‘On the Cliffs’ (1880), Swinburne experimented with blending quotations from Sappho, Aeschylus, Shakespeare, Keats and other unhappy poets of the nightingale, and the poem gets its title because, like Eliot, he found another irresistible image for the ever-present in the ocean itself. ‘On the Verge’ (1884) uses the octometer’s length to ...”

“... The editors speculate that the faulty little book in question was EBB’s translation of Aeschylus’s Prometheus Bound, which she had published anonymously with some miscellaneous poems several years before. Her adolescent epic, The Battle of Marathon, had been privately printed by her father when she was 14, and the Prometheus was her second ...”

“... especially for someone who does not speak/read the original language. I can just about puzzle out Aeschylus with the help of a facing-page crib, and this adds to my pleasure in what Rory Mullarkey got up to in his version of the Oresteia at the Globe three years ago, or in Oliver Taplin’s recent, rhythmic and musical translation (published by Norton). At ...”

“... of his writing for the stage. Les Mouches eluded the censor because it was an adaptation of Aeschylus, though no one could fail to notice the contemporary relevance of its depiction of Orestes deciding to fight the tyrant who was oppressing Thebes. But the production was staged in the elegant Théâtre de la Cité (previously called the Sarah ...”

“... Square demanding that he be interned again. While interned, he read Goethe, Winckelmann, Schiller, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Plato, Aristotle and Freud – which shows that the redemptive power of literature has its limits, because he emerged utterly unrepentant. He told the Sunday Pictorial that he had not changed his ideas one inch. ‘I do not ...”