For when the idea of scenic representation was once familiar, the epics of Homer suggested the true nature of the drama.

The great characteristic of that poet is individuality.

Gods or men alike have their separate, unmistakeable attributes and distinctions--they converse in dialogue-- they act towards an appointed end.

Bring Homer on the stage, and introduce two actors instead of a narrator, and a drama is at once effected.

If Phrynichus from the first borrowed his story from Homer, Aeschylus, with more creative genius and more meditative intellect, saw that there was even a richer mine in the vitality of the Homeric spirit--the unity of the Homeric designs.