Definition of Aeschylean

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or in the manner of Aeschylus.

Partainyms: Aeschylus
Derivative terms: Aeschylus

Definition of Aeschylean

1. Adjective. Of or relating to Aeschylus, an ancient Greek dramatic poet. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aeschylean

Aeonium
Aeonium haworthii
Aepyceros
Aepyceros melampus
Aepyornidae
Aepyorniformes
Aequian
Aer
Aerobacter
Aerobacter aerogenes
Aerococcus
Aeroflot
Aeromonas hydrophilia lipase-acyltransferase
Aertel
Aertex
Aeschylean (current term)
Aeschylus
Aeschynanthus radicans
Aesculapian
Aesculapius
Aesculus
Aesculus hippocastanum
Aesir
Aesop
Aesop's fables
Aesopian
Aesops
Aethionema
Aethusa
Aethusa cynapium

Literary usage of Aeschylean

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1893)
"43 THE ATTIC ORATORS CHAP. point out the guilty, the Aeschylean tone is still more striking. No passage, perhaps, in Aeschylus is more expressive of the ..."

2. The Five Great Skeptical Dramas of History by JOHN. OWEN (1896)
"... same general outline of formal conception, as the Aeschylean Prometheus significantly says of his mother Tro\\cav ..."

3. Thucydides Mythistoricus by Francis Macdonald CORNFORD (1907)
"... two chapters we have studied the little drama of Cleon's exaltation and fall, and noted some analogies of treatment which point to Aeschylean influence. ..."

4. The Influence of Aeschylus and Euripides on the Structure and Content of by Marion Clyde Wier (1920)
"In addition to these Aeschylean qualities we find another, force; — force in diction, metaphor, versification, characterization, and action, ..."

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