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May 12, 2011 | History

Aeschylus

c. 525 BC - c. 456 BC

Aeschylus was an ancient Greek playwright. He is often recognized as the father of tragedy and is the earliest of the three Greek tragedians whose plays survive, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.

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Subjects
Drama, Orestes (Greek mythology), Greek drama (Tragedy), Prometheus (Greek deity), Electra (Greek mythology), Accessible book, History, Agamemnon (Greek mythology), Greek Mythology, Translations into English, Danaus (Greek mythology), Salamis, Battle of, Greece, 480 B.C., Seven against Thebes (Greek mythology), Prometheus (Greek mythology), Erinyes (Greek mythology), Eteocles (Greek mythology), Polyneices (Greek mythology), Translations from Greek, Translations into Italian, Criticism and interpretation, Danaus (Greek mythology) in literature, Translations into Icelandic, Translations into Spanish, English poetry, Greek poetry
Places
Greece, Thebes (Greece), Thēvai (Greece)
People
Aeschylus, Xerxes I King of Persia (519-465 or 4 B.C), Aeschylus. Prometheus bound, John Lewin, Promethius, Zeus
Time
Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C., Ancient Greece, Persian wars, 500-449 B.C.

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Alternative names

  • Αἰσχύλος
  • Aiskhulos
  • Eschyle
  • Aischylos
  • AEschylus
  • Aeschylus.
  • Sophocles, Euripides Aeschylus
  • Æschylus.
  • Æschylus
  • Eschyle.
  • 525-456 av. J.C Eschyle

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May 12, 2011 Edited by Budelberger merge authors
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October 29, 2010 Edited by Alan Millar merge authors
August 30, 2010 Edited by Lestevenon Edited without comment.
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import