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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 ...
Aeschylus was not the first to write a play about the Persians — his older contemporary Phrynichus wrote two plays about them. The first, The Sack of Miletus (written in 493 BC, 21 years before Aeschylus' play), concerned the destruction of an Ionian colony of Athens in Asia Minor by the Persians.
Prometheus Bound (Ancient Greek: Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης, romanized: Promētheús Desmṓtēs) is an ancient Greek tragedy traditionally attributed to Aeschylus and thought to have been composed sometime between 479 BC and the terminus ante quem of 424 BC.
A small number of verses from these three of Aeschylus' lost works have been saved: fifty-four from Myrmidons, seven from Nereids and twenty-one from Phrygians. A sense of the pace at which additions to this corpus are made can be gleaned from the fact that a papyrus fragment containing seven letters on three lines that could be fitted over a two-line quote from Justin Martyr's dialogue Trypho ...
Nuṣratī wrote in the Deccani variety of Urdu and Persian. [8] His poetry uses archaic language and a complex style. [2] He was a prominent practitioner of the qaṣīda, ghazal and especially mathnawī forms. [9] One of his earliest works, Miʿrāj-nāma, was written for Sultan Muḥammad ʿĀdil Shāh (r. 1627–1656). [10]
A Short History of Pakistan is an edited book published by University of Karachi Press and comprises four volumes. The book is edited by Prof Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi and provides a comprehensive account of the history of the Pakistan region and its people from the prehistory leading to the creation of Pakistan and East Pakistan which then became Bangladesh.
Ashob is regarded by scholars as an important historical genre in Persian, Urdu and Turkish literature used by the writers to express their anguish and sorrows over political and social shifts. [4] [5] The Ashobs generally describe emotional and thoughts of a writer in a narrative poetic format based on several features. [6]
Class year Degree Notability Ref. Akhlaq Mohammed Khan: urdu poet and lyricist (better known as Shahryar) [34] Akhtar ul Iman: MA in Urdu urdu poet and screenwriter in Hindi cinema [35] Ali Sardar Jafri: urdu poet, critic, Hindi/Urdu film lyricist [36] Anubhav Sinha: 1998 film director [37] Dalip Tahil: film actor Habib Tanveer