The Lyrical Dramas of Aeschylus

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John Stuart Blackie's Victorian translations of Aeschylus — the 'lyrical dramas' of the title emphasizing their choral and musical dimensions — offer another scholarly rendering of the oldest playwright in the Western tradition. Blackie was a Scottish classicist and polymath who brought genuine literary ambition to his translations; his Aeschylus is more poetically adventurous than Morshead's but less accurate. The volume's value is as an alternative window into these plays rather than as a replacement for more recent scholarship.