This is an opera in seven parts, based on the trilogy of ancient Greek tragedies by Aeschylus.

这是分为七部分的歌剧，基于埃斯库罗斯所写的古希腊悲剧三部曲。

What the Greeks only suspected we know well; what their Aeschylus imagined our nursery children feel.

希腊人只是猜想的东西，我们已了解得一清二楚；他们的埃斯库罗斯想像出的东西，我们襁褓中的孩子就已经感觉到了。

Aeschylus will have the stage first.

而这只是暖身操。

Now, Aeschylus frequently competes at this festival, the city Dionysia.

上次比赛 索福克勒斯以些微之差赢了他。

This preface quotes a passage from The Libation Bearers, by Aeschylus.

这篇序言引用了埃斯库罗斯 (Aeschylus) 的《祭酒人》中的一段话。

Aeschylus is relying on the two individuals to tell the story.

这绝对是前所未闻。

Dionysos, after some deliberation, decides in favor of Aeschylus and dumps Euripides back into Hades.

狄俄尼索斯经过一番深思熟虑，决定支持埃斯库罗斯， 并将欧里庇得斯扔回阴间。

Some of the great Greek playwrights – such as Aeschylus and Sophocles, Euripides – wrote tragedies.

一些伟大的希腊剧作家——如埃斯库罗斯、索福克勒斯、欧里庇得斯——写过悲剧。

Among the tragedians, there are extant works from only three: Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.

在悲剧作家中，现存的作品只有三位：埃斯库罗斯、索福克勒斯和欧里庇得斯。

But it destroyed many of the works of Aristotle, Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles and countless other ancient astronomers, mathematicians, poets, playwrights and philosophers.

但它烧毁了很多亚里士多德、埃斯库罗斯、欧力比德斯、索福克勒斯（希望人名木有查错）以及其他无数古代天文学家、数学家、诗人、剧作家和哲学家的著作。