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Definition of Aeschylean
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or in the manner of 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
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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