Algernon Charles Swinburne, letter to Walter Headlam (2 October 1900), in The Swinburne Letters, ed. Cecil Y. Lang, Vol. 6 (Yale University Press, 1962), p. 147
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I regard the Oresteia as probably on the whole the greatest spiritual work of man.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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About Aeschylus
Aeschylus (Greek: Αἰσχύλος; 525 BC – 456 BC) was a playwright of ancient Greece, the earliest of the three greatest Greek tragedians, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.
About Aeschylus
Aeschylus (Greek: Αἰσχύλος; 525 BC – 456 BC) was a playwright of ancient Greece, the earliest of the three greatest Greek tragedians, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.
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