Month: 3 years ago

Notes Dwight 

The risk of being real: Phrynichus

Trying to get caught up on everything I mean to post, and feeling frustrated and tired about running into old problems about posting comments on other blogs… A semi-quick comment on Aeschylus’ use of actual events (instead of mythic stories) in The Persians. You usually see a comment about the poet/playwright Phrynichus when there is […]

Notes Dwight 

The Authenticity of Prometheus Bound by Mark Griffith

The Authenticity of ‘Prometheus Bound’ by Mark Griffith 1977: Cambridge University Press When Mark Griffith began researching this topic for his doctoral thesis he believed in the authenticity of Prometheus Bound as a work by Aeschylus, but came to the the conclusion “that the evidence which I was assembling showed Prom. consistently behaving quite differently […]