bogus Aeschylus quote?

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri Apr 8 01:42:04 UTC 2011


At 8:50 PM -0400 4/7/11, Laurence Horn wrote:
>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!
>
Oops.  That should have read that PB "was attributed to Aeschylus,
but is now considered to be the work of another hand".

LH

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