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Aeschylus' work has a strong moral and religious emphasis. [49] The Oresteia trilogy concentrated on humans' position in the cosmos relative to the gods and divine law and divine punishment. [50] Aeschylus' popularity is evident in the praise that the comic playwright Aristophanes gives him in The Frogs, produced some 50 years after Aeschylus ...
Adlerian – Alfred Adler (as in Classical Adlerian psychology) Aegean – Aegeus, of Greek mythology (as in Aegean Sea) Aeolian – Aeolus, of Greek mythology (as in Aeolian Islands); also Eolian (as in Eolian processes) Aeschylean – Aeschylus (as in Aeschylean silence) Aesopian – Aesop the Ancient Greek fabulist. (Also, conveying an ...
She is also the central figure in plays by Aeschylus, Alfieri, Voltaire, Hofmannsthal, and Eugene O'Neill. [2] She is a vengeful soul in The Libation Bearers, the second play of Aeschylus' Oresteia trilogy. She plans out an attack with her brother to kill their mother, Clytemnestra. In psychology, the Electra complex is named after her.
Aeschylus, the famous tragedian, gave an account in his Prometheus Bound where the Moirai were called the helmsman of the goddess Ananke along with the three Erinyes: [18] Prometheus: Not in this way is Moira (Fate), who brings all to fulfillment, destined to complete this course.
Aristotle [A] (Attic Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης, romanized: Aristotélēs; [B] 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath.His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts.
Aeschylus (с. 525/524-c. 456/455 BC) was an Athenian playwright of the 5th century BC, best known for the Oresteia trilogy. Aeschylus may also refer to: People
Aeschylus of Alexandria (Greek Αισχύλος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς) was an epic poet who must have lived before the end of the 2nd century, and whom Athenaeus calls a well-informed man. One of his poems bore the title Amphitryon, and another Messeniaca. A fragment of the former is preserved in Athenaeus. [1]
Many cultures throughout history have speculated on the nature of the mind, heart, soul, spirit, brain, etc. For instance, in Ancient Egypt, the Edwin Smith Papyrus contains an early description of the brain, and some speculations on its functions (described in a medical/surgical context) and the descriptions could be related to Imhotep who was the first Egyptian physician who anatomized and ...