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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: The Eumenides, The furies.: Translated into rhyming verse by Gilbert Murray.

    First published in 1925 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: The Greek Classics: Aeschylus - Seven Plays (The Greek Classics)

    First published in 2006 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Hoi tragōdies tou Aischylou

    First published in 1970 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Hoi tragōdies toy Aischylou

    First published in 1960 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: La Orestiada: trilogia de Esquilo : adaptacion libre de José María Pemán y Francisco Sanchez-Castiner.

    First published in 1960 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Die Orestie. Agamemnon. Die Totenspende. Die Eumeniden.

    First published in 1987 1 edition — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Tragoediae Cum Incerti Poetae

    First published in 1998 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Hai tou Aischylou tragōdiai sōzomenai hepta. Aeschyli tragoediae quae extant septem. Cum lectionibus variantibus

    First published in 1746 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Hai tou Aischylou tragōdiai sōzomenai hepta. Aeschyli tragoediae quae extant septem. Cum versione Latina, et lectionibus variantibus

    First published in 1746 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Le coefore: Fra genos e polis la scelta di Oreste (Il filo di Arianna)

    First published in 1999 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Les Danaides (Actes Sud-Papiers)

    First published in 1996 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Les Euménides d'Eschyle.

    First published in 1920 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Les suppliantes. Les Preses. Les sept contre Thebes. Prométhée enchainé

    First published in 1947 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: The libation bearers and The Eumenides: The Oresteia, parts II and III.

    First published in 1964 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: The Libration Bearers

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  • Cover of: L' orestea--Agamennone, le coefore. Le eumenidi.

    First published in 1950 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: The lyrical dramas of Aeschylus, from the Greek

    First published in 1850 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: The new readings contained in Hermann's posthumous edition of Aeschylus translated and considered by George Burges. : forming an appendix to the prose translation. of Aeschylus.

    First published in 1853 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Oghbergutʻyunner

    First published in 1991 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Orestea.

    First published in 1968 1 edition in 1 language
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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