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In Praise of Prometheus

Humanism and Rationalism in Aeschylean Thought

Leon Golden

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Subject: Philosophy | University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9780807809969
eBook ISBN: 9780807873731

DESCRIPTION

This book analyzes in detail the argument that Aeschylus was a great poet whose views on religious and political thought were naive and primitive. The author cites relevant evidence to discount this theory and identifies Aeschylus as a rationalist and a humanist.

Originally published in 1966.

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