When the Gods Flew | Aeschylus, the Mechane, and the Theology of Flight in Greek Tragedy

Somewhere in the Theatre of Dionysus on the southern slope of the Acropolis in Athens, around the middle of the fifth century BCE, an actor playing a god was lifted…

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