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Updated: June 3, 2025
The village of Colonos, a mile from Athens, was his birthplace; and in his "OEdipus Coloneus," he makes his Chorus of village officials sing thus of their consecrated olive grove: Then they go on, this band of village elders, to praise the gods for their special gifts to that small Athenian land.
A charming brilliant fellow in his cups of which, as of some other more questionable pleasures, report is he was too fond; a man worshiped during his life, and on his death made a hero with semi-divine honors; does that sound like the story of a Messenger of the Gods? He was born at Colonos in Attica, in 496; of his hundred or so of dramas, seven come down to us.
The original writer conceived a tragedy, anticipating the grandeur of the Oedipus at Colonos, or Lear and here eight supplementary verses have anti-climaxed this masterpiece to the level of a boys' novel. "Also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before," &c., &c. Tut-tut! Job's human nature had sustained a laceration that nothing but death could heal.
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