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The Mood of the Persai of Aeschylus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

G. Clifton
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Much of the imagery of Aeschylus' plays is vivid and startling. It runs through his tragedies like a thread of bright colour, setting the mood and atmosphere of the drama. Yet often the playwright creates his effects by hints, by a subtle use of a pictorial word here or an unusual verb there. His words are like the quick close-ups of a film which stimulate the imagination to see more, and often it is by a series of visual ideas that he creates the effects he is aiming at.

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Research Article
Information
Greece & Rome , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , October 1963 , pp. 111 - 117
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1963

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References

page 111 note 1 See lines 114 and 781.

page 114 note 1 Greek Tragedy (Cambridge, 1911).Google Scholar

page 114 note 2 Aeschylus in his Style (Dublin, 1942).Google Scholar