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Aesychlus' "Persians" gets a simultaneously avant-garde and classical treatment at the Getty Villa in Malibu By Myron Meisel Persians Still - H 2014 Essentially the ancient-world equivalent of a story ...

Ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus who redefined theater and was known as the 'Father of Tragedy' gave us this lofty quote, which serves as a survival lesson even today. In his play Prometheus Bound, ...

In such an hour the Athenians awoke to the full consciousness of their own future. Even the second devastation of their city and land, in the following summer, did not check for an instant their ...