Equally remote from the ordinary experience and emotions of a Roman would be the feeling of awe, gloom, and mystery, diffused through the great thoughts and imaginations of aeschylus.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
Mere imitations of aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides might possibly have obtained some favour with a few men of literary education, but could never have been listened to with applause, for more than a century and a half, by miscellaneous audiences.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
An edition of the Oresteia of aeschylus in this type was being printed for Mr. Proctor at the Chiswick Press at the time of his death, and appeared in 1904. In 1908 it was followed by an edition of the Odyssey printed at the Clarendon Press.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard