{Classical Greek Dramatists [– Aeschylus]}[14th February 1991]

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‘Aeschylus is almost unequalled in writing tragedy that, for all its power of depicting evil* and the fear and consequences of evil, ends, as in Oresteia, in joy and reconciliation.** Living at a time when the Greek people still truly felt themselves surrounded by the gods, Aeschylus nevertheless had a capacity for detached and general thought, which was typically Greek and which enabled him to treat the fundamental problem of evil with singular honesty and success.’

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***– E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 20:391

[& see [Redbook8:241][19910208:1520f]{Greek Literature [continued (6)] [– Tragedy [continued (3)]: Aeschylus]}[8th February 1991]]

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