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, Greek Mythology, Translations into English, Continental european drama (dramatic works by one author), Greek drama (Tragedy), Orestes (Greek mythology), Greek drama, Prometheus (Greek deity), Drama (dramatic works by one author), Agamemnon (Greek mythology), Greek drama, translations into english, History, Seven against Thebes (Greek mythology), Electra (Greek mythology), Erinyes (Greek mythology), Aeschylus, Translations from Greek, Greek language materials, Translations into German, English drama, History and criticism, Eteocles (Greek mythology), Polyneices (Greek mythology), Textual Criticism, Translations into ItalianPeople
Aeschylus, Agamemnon King of Mycenae (Mythological character), Orestes King of Argos (Mythological character), Electra (Greek mythological figure), Prometheus (Greek deity), Xerxes I King of Persia (519-465 or 4 B.C), Eteocles King of Thebes (Mythological character), Polynices (Greek mythological figure), Danaus King of Argos (Mythological character), John Lewin, Aeschylus. Prometheus bound, Apollo (Deity), Jupiter (Greek deity), Prometheus (Greek mythology), Promethius (Greek deity), Sophocles, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848-1931), Vulcan (Greek deity), Xerxes I King of Persia (519 B.C.-465 B.C. or 464 B.C), ZeusTime
Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C., Persian Wars, 500 B.C.-449 B.C., Ancient Greece, Persian wars, 500-449 B.C., Scythia, the uttermost verge of the EarthID Numbers
- OLID: OL74434A
- ISNI: 0000000121407828
- VIAF: 268526195
- Wikidata: Q40939
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q40939
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Alternative names
- Αἰσχύλος
- Aiskhulos
- Eschyle
- Aischylos
- Æschylus
- Aeschylus Aeschylus
- Aeschylus (Aiskhylos)
- . Aeschylus.
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