aeschylus

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A male given name

A Greek dramatic poet (525 BC - 456 BC); Aeschylus was the earliest of the three greatest Greek tragedians

Greek writer of tragedies (p 140)

ES kuh lus Aeschylus was the first of classical Athens' three great writers of tragedy He grew up in the turbulent period when theAthenian democracy, having thrown off its tyranny (the absolute rule of one man), had to prove itself against both self-seekingpoliticians at home and invaders from abroad Aeschylus himself took part in his city's first struggles against the invadingPersians Later Greek chroniclers believed that Aeschylus was 35 years old in 490 BC when he participated in the Battle ofMarathon, in which the Athenians first repelled the Persians Author the Oresteia, in which such themes as wrath, mastery, persuasion,and the contrasts of light and darkness, of dirge and triumphal song, run throughout the trilogy

{i} (525-456 BC) poet and dramatist of ancient Greece

Athenian tragedian (ca 513-455 B C E ), author of Oresteia trilogy of 458 B C E (Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides) which chronicles the return of king Agamemnon of Mycene from the Trojan War, his murder by wife Clytemnestra, the avenging therof by his son Orestes, and Orestes' expiation of the blood-guilt Also wrote the Persians (472 B C E ) on the Persian defeat at Salamis in 480 B C E (a battle in which he participated)

especially tragedy (?525-?456 BC) an ancient Greek writer who was one of the earliest writers to develop the European style of drama (=plays for the theatre). 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, was performed in 472 BC. Other plays that survive are the Oresteia trilogy (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides), Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliants, and Prometheus Bound. Considered the father of Greek tragic drama, he added a second actor to the performance, an innovation that enabled the later development of dialogue and created true dramatic action. He was the first of the three great Greek tragedians, preceding Sophocles and Euripides

Greek tragedian; the father of Greek tragic drama (525-456 BC)

Hyphenation

Aes·chy·lus

Etymology

[ 'es-k&-l&s, 'Es- ] (biographical name.) From Ancient Greek Αἰσχύλος (Aischulos).