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THE RENOWN OF AESCHYLUS AFTER HIS DEATH (MIRROR) This article, translated by Melville B. Anderson, was first published in English in William Shakespeare. Victor Hugo. Chicago: A.C. McClurg and Co., 1886. p. 132-135.

According to Athenian practice, his private life was unveiled; he was traduced, slandered. A woman whom he had loved, Planesia, sister of Chrysilla, mistress of Pericles, has dishonored herself in the eyes of posterity by the outrages that she publicly inflicted on Aeschylus.

Egypt, feeling with reason that he was a giant and somewhat Egyptian, bestowed on him the name of "Pimander," signifying "Superior Intelligence." In Sicily, whither he had been banished, and where they sacrificed he-goats before his tomb at Gela, he was almost an Olympian. Afterward he was almost a prophet for the Christians, owing to the prediction of Prometheus, which they thought to apply to Jesus.

 Prometheus 
 Bound, Gefesselt 

  • PROMETHEUS BOUND A summary and analysis of the play (MIRROR)
  • Der Gefesselte Prometheus  Übertragung von J. G. Droysen 1832

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