THE TRAGEDIES. Tr. by R. Potter, 1777-8.
The tragedies of Æschylus have affected English drama chiefly through French and Italian dramatists. 'Samson Agonistes,' by Milton, and 'Prometheus Unbound,' by Shelley, are unmistakable echoes, and the latter was intended to be a sequel to Æschylus' 'Prometheus Bound'. 'Manfred' and 'Cain', by Byron, are modelled upon A. Influenced also Racine and Corneille. The most famous speech in Swinburne's 'Atalanta in Calydon' is a translation from A.
ÆSOP. 6th century B.C. Fabulist.
Here begynneth the book of the Subtyl Historyes and Fables of Esope.... Translated out of the French into Englysshe by William Caxton, 1484.
The fables of Æsop are among the very earliest of their kind, and probably have never been surpassed for point and brevity.
Nearly all subsequent fables are based upon Æsop. Has affected all European literature. All educated or even intelligent Greeks were supposed to know Æsop, hence their important influence.
ALAMANNI, LUIGI, The Elder. b. 1495, d. 1556. Italian poet.
LA COLTIVAZIONE (1546). [Didactic poem on agriculture.]
See '[Longfellow's Poets and Poetry] of the Century'.
ALCAEUS. b. 610 B.C., d. 580 B.C. Greek lyric poet.