Aeschylus, Persae, 332–3

Metatheatre in Aeschylus’ Oresteia

Lionel Abel coined the word ‘metatheatre’ in his 1963 book, Metatheatre: A New View of Dramatic Form, claiming he had discovered a new type of theatre, and cited Shakespeare’s Hamlet as the first metatheatrical play. Over the intervening decades, various scholars have pushed the incidence of the earliest metatheatrical play back beyond Hamlet. Richard Hornby, in his 1986 book, Drama, Metadrama,...

Sophrosyne in Aeschylus

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Haematopoiesis in adult animals is maintained by haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), which self-renew and can give rise to all blood cell lineages. TheAGM region is an important intra-embryonic site of HSC development and a wealth of evidence indicates that HSCs emerge from the endothelium of the embryonic dorsal aorta and extraembryonic large arteries. This, however, is a stepwise process that o...

Legal Action: The Trial As Theater in Aeschylus' Oresteia

Aeschylus' Oresteia is a key text for analyzing the relationship between law and drama both because it includes the earliest surviving instance of a trial scene in western drama and because it is explicitly concerned with the nature of trials, telling a story of repeated conflict that can only be resolved by the invention of the trial as a new form of action. First produced in Athens in 458 B.C...

3323 High resolution vitreous fluorometry in health and diabetes. Preliminary result

PURPOSE; To assess metamorphopsia in patients with epimacular membrane, using a SLO. METHOD& A SLO wa.s used to project I7 spots on the retina. A first spot considered as a reference appears at a constant place above a central flickering spot. The task consists in moving 15 other spots, appearing one after the other, in order to draw two regular squares as shown in the figure below. ~QQE: C-m o...