Sunday, March 03, 2019
Aeschylus' Knowledge of Astrology
Aeschylus, Agamemnon. Edited with a Commentary by Eduard Fraenkel, Vol. II: Commentary on 1-1055 (1950; rpt. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962), p. 5 (on line 6, footnote omitted):
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δυνάστας is claimed by Headlam as an astrological term, on which Housman remarks (in his copy of Headlam's prose translation, kindly lent me by Hugh Last): 'Aeschylus knew no more of astrology than of Christianity or the pox.'
