bogus Aeschylus quote?

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:24 PM -0400 4/7/11, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>When I wrote _Prometheus Bound_,

Wow. I knew you were a mature scholar, Jon, but this!??!  And
Aeschylus, typically, didn't even credit you in the acknowledgments!

In fact, Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_Bound)
notes, with raised eyebrow, that _Prometheus Bound_ "was attributed
to Aeschylus to be the work of another hand"--without saying whose.
Now we know!

LH

>I meant to say _Agamemnon_. Edith
>Hamilton's celebrated translation (1937) of the relevant lines:
>
>"Drop, drop - in our sleep,  upon the heart
>sorrow falls, memory's pain,
>and to us, though against our very will,
>even in our own despite
>comes wisdom
>by the awful grace of God."
>JL
>
>On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  ---------------------- Information from the mail header
>>  -----------------------
>>  Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>>  Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
>>  Subject:      Re: bogus Aeschylus quote?
>>
>>
>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>  On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
>>  wrote:
>>  > God knows what his mom thought.
>>
>>  Something like,
>>
>>  "My goodness! A child as precocious as this?! Why, I wouldn't be
>>  surprised if he grew up to be President!"
>>
>>  doubtless.
>>
>>  --
>>  -Wilson
>>  -----
>>  All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
>>  to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>>  -Mark Twain
>>
>>  ------------------------------------------------------------
>>  The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>>
>
>
>
>--
>"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
>
>------------------------------------------------------------
>The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org