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"Chorus: Let not thy love to man oerleap the bounds Of reason, nor neglect thy wretched state: So my fond hope suggests thou shalt be free From these base chains, nor less in power than Jove."
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Aeschylusεὐθυδίκαιοι δ᾿ οἰόμεθ᾿ εἶναι· — Aeschylus
"εὐθυδίκαιοι δ᾿ οἰόμεθ᾿ εἶναι· τοὺς μὲν καθαρὰς ⟨καθαρῶς⟩ χεῖρας προνέμοντας οὔτις δ᾿ ἀλιτὼν ὥσπερ ὅδ᾿ ἁνὴρ χεῖρας φονίας ἐπικρύπτει, μάρτυρες ὀρθαὶ τοῖσι θανοῦσιν παραγιγνόμεναι πράκτορες αἵματος αὐτῷ τελέως ἐφάνημεν."
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Aeschylus was an ancient Greek tragedian often described as the father of tragedy. Academic knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier Greek tragedy is largely based on inferences made from reading his surviving plays. According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of characters in the theatre and allowed conflict among them. Formerly, characters interacted only with
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