The Plays of Æschylus

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Excerpt from The Plays of Æschylus: Translated From a Revised TextThe second principal stimulus was, in the case of zeschylus, the contact of a mind naturally of a religious bent with the ideas and doctrines of the East. The Ionian Cities in Asia Minor were channels for the communication Of such ideas, and there was in addition, at Eleusis, the birthplace of [eschylus, a ceremonial worship Of Demeter and Persephone, embodied in the famous Eleusinian Mysteries. With this cult of the Mother and Daughter, which had been one of the great recipients in Greece of new sacred rites borrowed from Egypt1 and connected with the worship of Isis, the family of [eschylus were, according to tradition, Officially associated. The acquaintance shown by {eschylus in The Persians with the distinctively Persian doctrines and philosophic view of Nature, as opposed to ideas elsewhere pre vailing in the East, would of itself indicate a far more than superficial study of Oriental modes Of thought.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.