Persae

Whence Timotheus, in the play called Persae, takes occasion handsomely to exhort the

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

The spectre in the Persae was his only model for a ghost, and the furies in the Orestes were his perfection of tragical machinery.

Vivian Grey Benjamin Disraeli 1842

[486] The 'Persae' of Aeschylus (produced 472 B.C.) was received with transports of enthusiasm, reviving as it did memories of the glorious defeat of Xerxes at Salamis, where the poet had fought, only a few years before, 480 B.C.

The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

"Persae" is, in this respect, true to nature, and represents with accuracy the real habits of the nation.

The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 5. (of 7): Persia The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. George Rawlinson 1857

The "Persae" of Aeschylus afforded me the first model of my conception, although the decision of the glorious contest now waging in Greece being yet suspended forbids a catastrophe parallel to the return of Xerxes and the desolation of the Persians.

The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807

The "Persae" of Aeschylus afforded me the first model of my conception, although the decision of the glorious contest now waging in Greece being yet suspended forbids a catastrophe parallel to the return of Xerxes and the desolation of the Persians.

The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807

a Greek story, he is still a modern who narrates -- he can never make himself a Greek any more than Aeschylus in the "Persae" could make himself a Persian.

The Poems of Schiller — Third period Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782

a Greek story, he is still a modern who narrates -- he can never make himself a Greek any more than Aeschylus in the "Persae" could make himself a Persian.

The Works of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782

Aeschylus visited Syracuse we are told by an anonymous commentator that he witnessed in this theater a performance of his own Persae ....

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The “Persae” of Aeschylus afforded me the first model of my conception, although the decision of the glorious contest now waging in

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003