bogus Aeschylus quote?

[Jonathan Lighter]

Yes, "Aeschylus" is one of my pen names. I'm sure you'd recognize the
others. Some of them appear in reference books with the bogus bios I've
supplied.

And coming up with those, believe me, would be worthy of  Plutarch, if
there'd been such a person.

JL



On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> 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_,
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> >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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