poet-playwright

Updated: May 1, 2025

The fateful lives of OEdipus, for example, and of his family, of Agamemnon, and of his unhappy offspring these were shown in action in the orchestra of the theater of Dionysus again and again, by Æschylus, by Sophocles, by Euripides, and by many another poet-playwright of that splendid epoch whose works have not descended to us.

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