He defies all imitation.
His genius is so near the verge of bombast, that to approach his sublime is to rush into the ridiculous.

[28] Aeschylus never once, in the plays that have come down to us, delineates love, except by an expression or two as regards the passion of Clytemnestra for Aegisthus [29].

It was emblematic of a new state of society when Euripides created the Phaedra and the Medea.

His plots are worked out by the simplest and the fewest positions.

But he had evidently his own theory of art, and studied with care such stage effects as appeared to him most striking and impressive.