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Aeschylus

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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ancient Athenian playwright

Born c. 525 BC
Died c. 456 BC

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  • Cover of: Aischylos: Prometheus, gefesselt

    First published in 1986 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Aeschyli Eumenides : Aus: [Tragoediae] Aeschyli quae supersunt tragoediae, Vol. 1, Sect. 3

    First published in 1900 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Die Perser des Aischylos

    First published in 1917 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Tragici greci: Eschilo, Sofocle, Euripide

    First published in 1977 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Agamemnon

    First published in 1950 1 edition in 2 languages
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  • Cover of: The Complete Aeschylus: Volume II: Persians and Other Plays (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)

    First published in 2009 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Three great Greek plays.

    First published in 1960 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Septem ad Thebas: Edidit Henricus Weil

    First published in 1922 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Girishia higeki zenshū

    First published in 1960 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: The choephori

    First published in 1901 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: The 'Agamemnon' of Aeschylus

    First published in 1904 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Eschyle

    First published in 1925 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Xila bei ju: Agamemnon ; Oedipus the King ; Medea

    First published in 1987 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Tragicorum graecorum fragmenta (TrGF).

    First published in 1985 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Prometheus

    First published in 1850 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Prometheus Bound And Other Plays

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  • Cover of: Aeschyli tragoediae quae supersunt: [...]

    First published in 2011 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: The Complete Aeschylus

    First published in 2018 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The Agamemnon of Aeschylus

    First published in 2014 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Four Plays of Aeschylus: The Suppliant Maidens, The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Prometheus Bound

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ancient Athenian playwright

Born c. 525 BC
Died c. 456 BC
Subjects
Drama, Greek Mythology, Translations into English, Continental european drama (dramatic works by one author), Greek drama (Tragedy), Orestes (Greek mythology), Greek drama, Drama (dramatic works by one author), Prometheus (Greek deity), 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 Italian
Places
Greece, Thebes (Greece), Israel, Thebes, Thēvai (Greece)
People
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), Zeus
Time
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 Earth

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Alternative names

  • Αἰσχύλος
  • Aiskhulos
  • Eschyle
  • Aischylos
  • Æschylus
  • Aeschylus Aeschylus
  • Aeschylus (Aiskhylos)
  • . Aeschylus.

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May 25, 2024 Edited by Marla Removed incorrect alternate names
February 27, 2024 Edited by Drini merge authors
February 27, 2024 Edited by Drini merge authors
November 3, 2021 Edited by LeadSongDog merge authors
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import