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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: Tragōdiai hex: Promētheus desmōtēs. Hepta epi Thēbais. Persai. Agamemnōn. [Choēphoroi.] Eumenides. Iketides. Tragoediae sex

    First published in 1518 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Scholia in Aeschyli tragoedias omnes ex vetvstissimis libris manuscri ptis collecta, atq

    First published in 1552 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Aischylou Promētheus desmōtēs, Hepta epi Thēbais, Persai, Agamemnōn, Eumenides, Hiketides

    First published in 1552 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Tragoediae sex: quot quidem extant, summa fide ac diligentia è Greco in Latinum sermonem, pro utriuso linguae tyronibus, ad uerbum conuersae

    First published in 1555 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Tragoediae sex quot quidem extant

    First published in 1555 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Tragoediae sex: quot quidem extant, summa fide ac diligentia ©· Greco in Latinum sermonem, pro utriuso linguae tyronibus, ad uerbum conuersae

    First published in 1555 2 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Aischylou tragōdiae Z ...: Aeschyli traoediae VII. Quae cùm omnes multo quàm antea castigatiores eduntur, tum verò vna, quae mutila & decurtata prius erat, integra nunc profertur. Scholia in easdem, plurimis in locis locupletata, & in penè infinitis emendata

    First published in 1557 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Aischylou tragōdiai hepta: Promētheus desmōtēs, Hepta epi Thevais, Persai, Agamemnōn, Choēphor'oi, Eumenides, Hiketides. Soholia eis ta autas tragōdias.: Aeschyli tragoediae VII. Quae cùm omnes multo quàm antea castigatiores eduntur, tum verò vna, quae mutila & decurtata prius erat, integra nunc profertur. Scholia in easdem, plurimis in locis locupletata, & in penè infinitis emendata.

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  • Cover of: Aischylou tragōdiai z ...: scholia eis tas autas tragōdias = Aeschyli tragoediae VII : quae cùm omnes multo quàm antea castigatiores eduntur, tum verò vna, quae mutila & decurtata prius erat, integra nunc profertur : scholia in easdem, plurimis in locis locupletata, & in penè infinitis emendata

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  • Cover of: Aesopi Phrygis fabvlae Graece et Latine, cvm aliis qvibusdam opusculis, quorum indicem, sequens, pagella indicabit

    First published in 1558 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Aeschyli Prometheus

    First published in 1559 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: The Prometheus bound of Aeschylus

    First published in 1559 111 editions in 11 languages — 27 previewable Cover of edition prometheusgriech00aescuoft Cover of edition schyliprometheus00aesc Cover of edition denbundnepromet00aesc Cover of edition prometheusbound00aesc Cover of edition prometheusboundt00aescuoft Cover of edition prometheusboundw00aescuoft Cover of edition geschichtedersla00safr Cover of edition prometheuswithin00aescuoft Cover of edition prometheusofaesc00aesciala
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  • Cover of: Tragoediae selectae Aeschyli, Sophoclis, Euripidis: cum duplici interpretatione Latina, una ad verbu[m], altera carmina

    First published in 1567 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Aischylou tragōdiai z: Aeschyli tragoediae VII : in quibus praeter infinita menda sublata, carminum omnium ratio hactenus ignorata, nunc primùm proditur

    First published in 1580 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Tragōidiai hepta.: Tragoediae VII, in quibus praeter infinita menda sublata, carminum omnium ratio, hactenus ignorata, nunc primùm proditur

    First published in 1580 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Aischylou tragōdia hepta epi Thēbais: Aeschyli tragoedia septem-Thebana

    First published in 1585 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Septem Thebana tragoedia Aeschulea: stylo ad veteres tragicos latinos accedente quàm proximè fieri potuit

    First published in 1585 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Aischylou tragōdiai hepta: Aeschyli tragoediae septem : cum scholiis Graecis omnibus : deperditorum dramatum fragmentis

    First published in 1663 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Aischylou tragodiai epta: Aeschyli tragoediae septem : cum scholiis Graecis omnibus : deperditorum dramatum fragmentis

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  • Cover of: Aeschyli Tragoediae septem: cum scholiis graecis omnibus

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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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December 21, 2020 Edited by Lisa merge authors
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import