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Aeschylus (UK: / ˈ iː s k ɪ l ə s /, US: / ˈ ɛ s k ɪ l ə s /; Greek: Αἰσχύλος Aiskhýlos; c. 525 /524 - c. 456 /455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian often described as the father of tragedy. Academic knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier Greek tragedy is largely based on inferences made from reading his surviving plays.

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Aeschylus (born 525/524 bc —died 456/455 bc, Gela, Sicily) was the first of classical Athens' great dramatists, who raised the emerging art of tragedy to great heights of poetry and theatrical power.. Life and career. Aeschylus grew up in the turbulent period when the Athenian democracy, having thrown off its tyranny (the absolute rule of one man), had to prove itself against both self

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Aeschylus (c. 525 - c. 456 BCE) was one of the great writers of Greek Tragedy in 5th century BCE Classical Athens.Known as 'the father of tragedy', the playwright wrote up to 90 plays, winning with half of them at the great Athenian festivals of Greek drama.Perhaps his most famous work is Prometheus Bound which tells the myth of the Titan punished by Zeus for giving humanity the gift of fire.

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Aeschylus (Aiskhylos) is often recognized as the father of tragedy, and is the first of the three early Greek tragedians whose plays survive extant (the other two being Sophocles and Euripides).In fact, by expanding the number of characters in plays to allow for conflict among them (previously, only a single character interacted with the Chorus) he was arguably the founder of all serious Greek

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Aeschylus. Often described as the father of tragedy by both Ancient Greek authors and modern scholars, Aeschylus is the earliest playwright whose works have survived to this day and age. Born into a well-to-do family at Eleusis in 525/4 BC, he debuted on the stage in the twenty-sixth year of his life, but achieved his first victory only fifteen

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Aeschylus. Aeschylus, marble bust. Aeschylus, (born 525/524—died 456/455 bc, Gela, Sicily), Greek tragic dramatist. He fought with the Athenian army at Marathon (490) and in 484 achieved the first of his many victories at the major dramatic competition in Athens. He wrote over 80 plays, but only 7 are extant; the earliest of these, Persians

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Aeschylus. The Greek playwright Aeschylus (524-456 B.C.) is the first European dramatist whose plays have been preserved. He is also the earliest of the great Greek tragedians, and more than any other he is concerned with the interrelationship of man and the gods. Aeschylus was born at the religious center of Eleusis.

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Aeschylus - Ancient Greek, Tragedy, Oresteia: One of a trilogy of unconnected tragedies presented in 472 bc, Persians (Greek Persai) is unique among surviving tragedies in that it dramatizes recent history rather than events from the distant age of mythical heroes. The play treats the decisive repulse of the Persians from Greece in 480, in particular their defeat at the Battle of Salamis.

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Aeschylus (also spelled Aischylos or Aiskhylos) was born c . 525/4 BCE to an aristocratic family in Eleusis, a town in western Attica, part of the territory controlled by Athens. He was one of the earliest tragic poets. He first entered a tragic competition c . 499 (dramatic competitions were introduced in the 530s BCE ) and won first prize for

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Career Aeschylus produces his first play 500/499-497/496. Aeschylus' first victory 484. The Suda article on another tragic poet, Pratinas, tells us that Pratinas competed with Aeschylus in the first years of the fifth century. The Parian Marble, a chronology of the ancient world preserved on a third century BC inscription, tells us that Aeschylus won his first victory in the same year that

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Bust of Aeschylus, ca. 1st-2nd century CE, Cornell University Library. Aeschylus was born in 525 BCE in Eleusis, the famous site of the Eleusinian Mysteries.This is the author credited with popularizing tragedy as a respected genre of poetry. Aeschylus expanded the form of tragic theatre by the time that he passed away in 455 BCE.

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262 quotes from Aeschylus: 'Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.', 'Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.', and 'Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain, Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, So men against their will

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The Eumenides is a play written by Aeschylus (c 525 - 455 BCE), the "Father of Greek Tragedy," the most popular and influential of all tragedians of his era. The Eumenides was the third play of a trilogy, The Oresteia, with the remaining two tragedies being Agamemnon and Libation Bearers.There was also a satyr play, the lost Proteus.. In first play Agamemnon, the victorious king of Argos

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Persians, one of a trilogy of unconnected tragedies presented in 472 bce by Aeschylus. Persians is unique among surviving ancient Greek tragedies in that it dramatizes recent history rather than events from the distant age of mythical heroes. The play treats the decisive repulse of the Persians from Greece in 480, in particular their defeat at the Battle of Salamis.

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Oresteia. The Oresteia ( Ancient Greek: Ὀρέστεια) is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BCE, concerning the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra, the murder of Clytemnestra by Orestes, the trial of Orestes, the end of the curse on the House of Atreus and the pacification of the Furies (also called

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Aeschylus, one of the three renowned prize-winning Greek writers of tragedy, engaged in a variety of activities. He was a soldier, playwright, religious participant, and probably an actor. He fought the Persians at the battles of Marathon and Salamis . Aeschylus first won the prize for drama in 484, the year Euripides was born.

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Aeschylus was the most innovative and imaginative of Greek dramatists. His extant plays, though covering a period of only fifteen years, show a great and evolving variety in structure and presentation. The three earliest extent plays (Persians, Seven against Thebes, and Suppliants) are designed for a theatre without a skēnē (stage building

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Aeschylus, the first of Athens' great tragedians, was born at a time when tensions between Greek city-states and the Persian Empire in the east were heating up. Domestically, Aeschylus' society was still recovering from a chaotic phase that saw them replace tyranny and absolute rule with Athenian democracy. Amidst all that the Persian

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The Persians (Ancient Greek: Πέρσαι, Persai, Latinised as Persae) is an ancient Greek tragedy written during the Classical period of Ancient Greece by the Greek tragedian Aeschylus.It is the second and only surviving part of a now otherwise lost trilogy that won the first prize at the dramatic competitions in Athens' City Dionysia festival in 472 BC, with Pericles serving as choregos.

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Tragedy - Aeschylus, Ancient Greece, Drama: It is this last question that Aeschylus asks most insistently in his two most famous works, the Oresteia (a trilogy comprising Agamemnon, Choephoroi, and Eumenides) and Prometheus Bound (the first part of a trilogy of which the last two parts have been lost): Is it right that Orestes, a young man in no way responsible for his situation, should be

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Aeschylus, known as the father of ancient Greek tragedy, met an absurd death. Credit: Richard-Mortel / CC-BY-2. / Wikimedia Commons. Aeschylus, the greatest poet-dramatist of ancient Greece, who met an absurd death, lived in the 5th century BC and went down in history as the father of tragedy.. He is often referred to as the founder of the trilogy genre.

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Oresteia, trilogy of tragic dramas by the ancient Greek dramatist Aeschylus, first performed in 458 bce.It is his last work and the only complete trilogy of Greek dramas that has survived. The Oresteia tells the story of the house of Atreus. The first play, Agamemnon, portrays the victorious return of that king from the Trojan War and his murder by his wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover, Aegisthus.

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Aeschylus, Agamemnon, line 1. card: [1] Release from this weary task of mine has been my plea to the gods throughout this long year's watch, in which, lying upon the palace roof of the Atreidae, upon my bent arm, like a dog, I have learned to know well the gathering of the night's stars, those radiant potentates conspicuous in the firmament, [5