Capitolo 7
of horsemen it is new and appalling. It ends with the news of the death
of the two principles and the lamentations of theirs two sisters,
Antigone and Ismene. The furious assault from without you/he/she has been rejected,
but the male line of the house of Laius is extinct. The Cadmeans
resolution that Eteocles will be buried in honour and the flung of Polynices
to the dogs and birds. Against the second sentence the protests of Antigone,
and it challenges the deliberation: the Choir, as it is natural, it is separated in
their feelings.
It is interesting to note that, in combination with the _Laius_ and
the _Oedipus_, this play won the dramatic crown in the 467 A.C. On the
other hand, so excellent a judge as the Mr. Gilbert Murray thinks that
"perhaps it is among the plays of Aeschylus what is born the I lead the
postage stamp of imposing genius." Perhaps the intrepid one, practically
atheist, character of Eteocles; the battle-fever that burns and
shivers through the play; the pathetic terror of the Choir--
you/he/she has given him favour, in Athenian eyes as the job of a poet that--
although recently (468 A.Cs.) won in the dramatic dispute by the
young Sophocles--it was still present to say, not from mere relationship, the
history of Marathon and Salamis. Or the preceding plays, the _Laius_
and the _Oedipus_, is been able to be of so tall worth as to do on
for defects observable in that that survives still. In some case,
we cannot err really in to accept the judgment of the Dr. Verral that "the history
of Aeschylus can be, and in the contours probably it is, the genuine one
legend of epic poem of the war of Cadmean."
There rests that an Aeschylean they play, the most famous--unless we omit
the _Agamemnon_--in Greek and existing literature, the _Prometheus Bound_.
What she was before a Trilogy, and that the second and bystander
parts has called the _Prometheus Freed_ and _Prometheus the
Fire-Bearer_, respectively it is approved,: but the date of his
show is unknown.
The _Prometheus Bound_ is evident for his gigantic and severely