Like a lion that roars for the scuffle.
Huge words by rivets and spike-nails bound,
Like plank on plank he will fling on the ground,
Blasting so bold
Like a Titan of old.”
Aristotle, Ethic. Nicom. III. 1. Clemen. Alex., Strom II. 14, p. 461. Pott. Aelian, V.H.V. 19, and Welcker, Trilog. p. 106.
The primary authorities for the life of Æschylus are the Parian Marble, the Βίος Αισχύλου, the Frogs of Aristophanes, the arguments of the extant plays, and various incidental notices in Athenæus and other ancient authors, most of whom have been quoted or mentioned in the text. With regard to secondary sources of information, the present writer has been much assisted, and had his labour essentially curtailed, by Petersen’s Vita Æschyli, Havniae, 1812; the article Æschylus, by Whiston, in Dr. Smith’s Dictionary of Biography and Mythology; the admirable condensed summary in Bernhardy’s Grundriss der Griechischen Litteratur, 2ter, Theil, Halle, 1845; and Donaldson’s Greek Theatre. In Chronology, I have followed Clinton.