I do not know any passages in "The Suppliants" that equal in poetry the more striking verses of "The Persians," or "The Seven against Thebes." XIII.

Attempts have been made to convey to modern readers a more familiar notion of Aeschylus by comparisons with modern poets.

One critic likens him to Dante, another to Milton--but he resembles neither.

No modern language can convey a notion of the wonderful strength of his diction--no modern poet, of the stern sublimity of his conceptions.

The French tragedians may give some weak reflection of Euripides or even of Sophocles, but none have ventured upon the sacred territory of the father of the tragic drama.