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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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  • Cover of: Aeschyli Prometheus Vinctus

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  • Cover of: 'Agamemnon' of Aeschylus; with an Introduction, Commentary, and Translation, by A. W. Verrall

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  • Cover of: Orestias Trilogie of Aeschylos Metwisk Oversat Af Peter Oluf Bronsted

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  • Cover of: Aeschylus in English Verse: The Seven Against Thebes. the Persians

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  • Cover of: Des Aeschylos Gefesselter Prometheus. Gr. und Deutsch Mit Einleitung, Anmerkungen und Dem Gelösten Prometheus Von G. F. Schoemann

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  • Cover of: Suppliants; Persians; and, Seven Against Thebes, of Aeschylus

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  • Cover of: Seven Plays: In English Verse

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  • Cover of: Aeschylos Agamemnon

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  • Cover of: Aeschylus. Choephoroi, with Intr. and Notes by A. Sidgwick

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  • Cover of: Aeschylus: Agamemnon. Text and Translation

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  • Cover of: Persae

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  • Cover of: House of Atreus : Being the Agamemnon: Libation-Bearers and Furies of Eschylus

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  • Cover of: Griechische Tragoedien; Volume 2

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  • Cover of: Die Tragödien des Aeschylos

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  • Cover of: Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus, Tr. in the Original Metres, by C. B. Cayley

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  • Cover of: Prometheus Bound, with Intr. and Notes by A. O. Prickard

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  • Cover of: Aischylos übersetzt, Vierte Auflage

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  • Cover of: Aischylou Eumenides = the Eumenides of Aeschylus

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  • Cover of: House of Atreus: Being the Agamemmon, Libation-Bearers, and the Furies Of Æschylus

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Subjects
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 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, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes
  • . Aeschylus.
  • Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes (Edited by Charles W. Eliot)

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April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import