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

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Alternative names

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

History Created April 1, 2008 · 10 revisions Download catalog record: RDF / JSON

March 31, 2017 Edited by Clean Up Bot add VIAF and wikidata ID
May 12, 2011 Edited by Budelberger merge authors
November 16, 2010 Edited by Alan Millar merge authors
October 29, 2010 Edited by Alan Millar merge authors
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import