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Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays by AEschylus, 2010-01-29 Works of Aeschylus. Includes ALL SEVEN tragedies: The Oresteia trilogy, The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliants and Prometheus Bound (mobi) by Aeschylus, 2008-12-09 The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides (Penguin Classics) by Aeschylus, 1984-02-07 The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Aeschylus, 2009-10-04 Aeschylus I: Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides by Aeschylus, 2009-09-22 Aeschylus II: The Suppliant Maidens and The Persians, Seven against Thebes and Prometheus Bound (The Complete Greek Tragedies) by Aeschylus, 1992-02-01 The Persians by Aeschylus, 2010-05-23 Aeschylus, II, Oresteia: Agamemnon. Libation-Bearers. Eumenides (Loeb Classical Library) by Aeschylus, 2009-01-31 Oresteia by Aeschylus, Peter Meineck, et all 1998-09-01 Aeschylus, I, Persians. Seven against Thebes. Suppliants. Prometheus Bound (Loeb Classical Library) by Aeschylus, 2009-01-31 Oresteia (Oxford World's Classics) by Aeschylus, 2009-01-15 The Persians and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) by Aeschylus, 2010-02-23 Septem Quae Supersunt Tragoedias (Oxford Classical Texts) by Aeschylus, 1973-01-11 Persians and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics) by Aeschylus, 2009-03-15

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1. Aeschylus - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
   aeschylus (pronounced / sk l s/ or / i sk l s/, Greek , 525 BC/524 BC – 456 BC/455 BC) was an ancient Greek playwright. He is often recognized as  
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   Extractions: Occupation Playwright and Soldier This article is about the ancient Greek playwright. For other uses, see Aeschylus (disambiguation) Aeschylus pronounced /ˈɛskɨləs/ or /ˈiːskɨləs/ Greek 525 BC 524 BC 456 BC ... 455 BC ) was an ancient Greek playwright . He is often recognized as the father or the founder of tragedy, and is the earliest of the three Greek tragedians whose plays survive, the others being Sophocles and Euripides . He expanded the number of characters in plays to allow for conflict among them; previously, characters interacted only with the chorus . No more than seven of the estimated seventy plays written by Aeschylus have survived into modern times. Many of Aeschylus' works were influenced by the Persian invasion of Greece , which took place during his lifetime. His play The Persians remains a quintessential primary source of information about this period in Greek history. The war was so important to Greeks and to Aeschylus himself that, upon his death around 456 BC, his epitaph included a reference to his participation in the Greek victory at Marathon but not to his success as a playwright.

2. Aeschylus (c. 525-456 BC)
   Biography of Greek playwright aeschylus, plus links to all of his works currently in print.  
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   Extractions: Home Theatre Links Advertise Here Email Us Aeschylus The "Father of Tragedy," Aeschylus was born in 525 B.C. in the city of Eleusis. Immersed early in the mystic rites of the city and in the worship of the Mother and Earth goddess Demeter, he was once sent as a child to watch grapes ripening in the countryside. According to Aeschylus, when he dozed off, Dionysus appeared to him in a dream and ordered him to write tragedies. The obedient young Aeschylus began a tragedy the next morning and "succeeded very easily." When Aeschylus first began writing, the theatre had only just begun to evolve. Plays were little more than animated oratorios or choral poetry supplemented with expressive dance. A chorus danced and exchanged dialogue with a single actor who portrayed one or more characters primarily by the use of masks. Most of the action took place in the circular dancing area or "orchestra" which still remained from the old days when drama had been nothing more than a circular dance around a sacred object. It was a huge leap for drama when Aeschylus introduced the second actor. He also attempted to involve the chorus directly in the action of the play. In

3. Aeschylus And His Tragedies
   Biography of ancient Greek dramatist aeschylus and analysis of his poetic qualities.  
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   Extractions: In a trilogy, or set of three connected plays, of which only his survives, he celebrated the glorious contests which he had witnessed, and for this also he gained the prize. Though defeated by Sophocles at his first attempt, the veteran Aeschylus regained his position with the series of which Seven Against Thebes was a part, and thenceforth his supremacy was undisputed. The real "father of tragedy" Aeschylus has been justly termed, certainly deserving this title far more than Thespis, for he it was who, as Aristophanes says, "first decked out tragedy with magificence." Improvements Introduced by Aeschylus Many were the improvements which Aeschylus introduced, especially in diminishing the importance of the chorus and in adding a second actor, thus giving prominence to the dialogue and making it the leading feature of the play. He removed all deeds of bloodshed from the public view, and in their place provided many spectacular elements, improving the costumes, making the masks more expressive and convenient, and probably adopting the cothurnus to increase the stature of the performers. Finally, he established the custom of contending for the prize with trilogies, or series of three independent dramas.

4. Aeschylus Quotes - The Quotations Page
   aeschylus; It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. info add mail. aeschylus; Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.  
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5. Aeschylus
   A biography of the Greek dramatist aeschylus and collection of related links.  
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   Extractions: AESCHYLUS (C. 525 - 456 B.C.) This article was originally published in Minute History of the Drama IN the lives of the three great Greek tragedians, tradition is so mixed with fact, and the facts themselves frequently so uncertain, that it is hard to tell where one leaves off and the other begins. According to tradition the great service of Aeschylus to Greek drama had its beginnings in a dream. One night when he was watching his father's flocks, the gods in a vision commanded him to write tragic dramas for their glorification in the religious festivals. Whether there is anything of truth in the story or not, Aeschylus must have begun writing plays at an early age for we find him when scarcely twenty-five years old competing in the dramatic contests held yearly in honor of the god Dionysus. It was fifteen years, however, before he carried off first prize. Meanwhile, he had learned his craft so well that from his first success in 484 B.C. he continued to win almost continuously until his death. The parents of Aeschylus belonged to the old Attic nobility so that family life and traditions tended to make him a broadminded conservative, both in politics and religion. The circumstance that his birthplace, Eleusis, was the center of the worship of the goddess, Demeter, probably is largely responsible for his keen religious consciousness, and the fact that in all his extant plays the unvarying motive is the relentless power of Fate and the ultimate justice of Providence.

6. The Internet Classics Archive | Works By Aeschylus
   List of works by aeschylus, part of the Internet Classics Archive.  
   http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/browse-Aeschylus.html

7. Aeschylus Collection At Bartleby.com
   Includes brief biography, etexts of the Orestian trilogy and Prometheus Bound from the Harvard Classics, and quotations.  
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8. GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography Of Aeschylus
   Although no contemporary writers or biographers provide much reliable information about the life of aeschylus as it actually unfolded, it has been possible  
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   Extractions: Help Search: Aeschylus Aeschylus is known to have fought with his brother for Greece against Persian invaders at Marathon in 490. It was the first successful major repulsion of the Persians by Greeks; Aeschylus was around thirty-five years old at the time. He went to war again at Salamis and Artemisium in 480 and possibly the next year at Plataea. By this time, however, his career as a dramatist was already well underway. Aeschylus is thought to have written his first plays around the year 500, for the legendary dramatic competition, the Great Dionysa, at the Festival of Dionysus in Athens, where they were performed. The competition, held in the annually in the spring, drew the most talented playwrights from around Greece for several decades. Plays were composed in trilogies, three lofty tragedies in unsequential arrangement or on a common theme, and one satyr play, or burlesque comedy. They were then judged according to high aesthetic criteria as well as the approval of the general audience. Aeschylus won his first victory in 484 and went on to win twelve more after that. In total, Aeschylus wrote approximately ninety plays, the titles of about eighty of which are known. However, only seven tragedies of the prodigious playwright's works survive. Aeschylus's innovations in the ancient dramatic form were fundamental. Chiefly, he was responsible for the introduction of a second actor. Whereas, previous to Aeschylus, plays had been more like recitations between a single actor and a chorus, the use of a second actor increased immensely the possiblities for flexible dramatic action and dialogue. He also expanded the presentation of drama by means of more elaborate costuming, stage machinery, and scenery. Majesty, profundity, and loft of language and theme are characteristic of the grand style of the so-called "Father of Tragedy."

9. Great Books Index - Aeschylus
   Discusses four plays by aeschylus the Oresteia (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, Eumenides) and Prometheus Bound. Prepared by Lewis Stiles.  
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10. Aeschylus - Crystalinks
    aeschylus (525456 BC) was an ancient Greek playwright. He is often recognized as the father or the founder of tragedy, and is the earliest of the three  
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    Extractions: Aeschylus (525-456 BC) was an ancient Greek playwright. He is often recognized as the father or the founder of tragedy, and is the earliest of the three Greek tragedians whose plays survive, the others being Sophocles and Euripides. He expanded the number of characters in plays to allow for conflict between them; previously, characters interacted only with the chorus. Unfortunately, only seven of the estimated 70 plays written by Aeschylus have survived into modern times. Many of Aeschylus' works were influenced by the Persian invasion of Greece, which took place during his lifetime. His play The Persians remains an important primary source of information about this period in Greek history. The war was so important to Greeks and to Aeschylus himself that, upon his death around 456 BC, his epitaph included a reference to his participation in the Greek victory at Marathon but not to his success as a playwright. Born in Eleusis, a district of Athens, he wrote his first plays in 498 BC, but his earliest surviving play is possibly The Suppliants, written in approximately 490 BC. That same year, he participated in the Battle of Marathon, and in 480 BC he fought at the Battle of Salamis. Salamis was the subject of his play The Persians, written in 472 BC; it is possible that The Suppliants was written after this, making The Persians his earliest surviving play.

11. Perseus Encyclopedia
    Later sources (the Life of aeschylus and a scholarly commentary on Aristoph. During aeschylus’ lifetime, Sicily was home to some of the richest and most  
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12. Aeschylus --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia
    Britannica online encyclopedia article on aeschylus first of classical Athens great tragic dramatists, who raised that emerging art to great heights of  
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    Extractions: Table of Contents Introduction Life and career Dramatic and literary achievements The plays Persians Seven Against Thebes Suppliants Oresteia ... Prometheus Bound Major Works Works Texts Recommended editions Additional Reading ... Print this Table of Contents Linked Articles Great Dionysia Marathon Hieron I's Shopping

13. AESCHYLUS
    aeschylus was the earliest of the great Greek tragedians and the principal creator of Greek drama. He is called the Father of Tragedy .  
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    Extractions: Greek Playwright Aeschylus was the earliest of the great Greek tragedians and the principal creator of Greek drama. He is called the 'Father of Tragedy'. Aeschylus fought for Athens at Marathon (490 BC), helping defeat invading Persia. His first prize in a dramatic contest came in 484 BC, followed eight years later by his earliest extant work, 'The Persians'. Before Aeschylus, tragedies had a single actor, who could only respond to suggestions of the chorus. By adding a second actor, Aeschylus was able to show intrigue and conflict. He reduced the chorus in size, lessening its importance in favour of dramatic dialogue. The chorus assumed a secondary role, commenting, warning or setting the mood for the action of the play which was now carried by the actors. Of the 90 or so plays Aeschylus wrote, only seven have survived in complete form, among them the 'Oresteia' trilogy, 'The Seven against Thebes' and 'Prometheus Bound'. www link :

14. The Dramas Of Aeschylus
    aeschylus, called the father of tragedy, was one of the three greatest tragic dramatists of the ancient world, along with Euripides and Sophocles.  
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    Extractions: Virgil ... Classics The Dramas of Aeschylus Aeschylus, called "the father of tragedy," was one of the three greatest tragic dramatists of the ancient world, along with Euripides and Sophocles . Born at Eleusis in 525 B.C.E. to a noble family, Aeschylus fought at Marathon and other battles of the Persian war. He introduced the concept of the dramatic trilogy (so he could also be called the "father of the sequel"). The Oresteia is the only trilogy of his that we still have intact; for instance, the Persians is part of a lost trilogy about the Persian war. Aeschylus employed dialog rather than the chorus to move the narrative along, which was a key step towards modern drama. He spent most of his career in Athens but exiled himself to Sicily after writing the Eumenides . He died in 456 B.C.E. Agamemnon

15. Aeschylus - Wikiquote
    Æschylus (525 BC 456 BC) was a playwright of ancient Greece, the earliest of the three greatest Greek tragedians, the others being Sophocles and Euripides  
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    Extractions: Jump to: navigation search Time waxing old can many a lesson teach. †schylus (525 BC - 456 BC) was a playwright of ancient Greece, the earliest of the three greatest Greek tragedians , the others being Sophocles and Euripides On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged. Innumerable twinkling of the waves of the sea. line 89 For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends. Variant:In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend. line 224 Words are the physicians of a mind diseased. line 378 For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.

16. ECStemplate
    Penn State s Electronic Classics Series aeschylus Page. From this site you can download works by aeschylus (525 256 B.C.E.) in Adobe s ® Acrobat  
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17. Greek Tragedy II: Aeschylus Feature
    Greek Tragedy II aeschylus. aeschylus. Chorus O suitablyattired-in-leather-boots Head of a traveller, wherefore seeking whom  
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18. The Classics Pages - Aeschylus' Agamemnon: Themes And Plot
    aeschylus Oresteia trilogy (Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides) is Total Theatre using every resource open to the producer language, metaphor,  
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19. Aeschylus
    Reliable biographical details of aeschylus life are few. We know aeschylus was born into a wealthy, well established family of Eleusis,  
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    Extractions: (ca. 525-456bc) Reliable biographical details of Aeschylus' life are few. We know Aeschylus was born into a wealthy, well established family of Eleusis, and that his father's name was Euphorion. Aeschylus' home town was a suburb of Athens where the Eleusinian mysteries were celebrated. These gnostic rites may well have influenced Aeschylus' religious views. He fought in the Persian War at Marathon and a decade later at Salamis. The victory of the Athenians at Salamis marked the beginning of the Golden Age of Athens, establishing the city as the dominant force in Greece and launching her imperial ambitions, and Aeschylus was there. Aristophanes gives us, in the Frogs , a portrait of a thoughtful, kind man with a decidedly passionatenot to say querulousnature that squares with other contemporary anecdotes of the dramatist. Georgias, for example, remarked that Aeschylus' plays were "full of Dionysos," lending credence to the popular notion that he wrote his plays while "under the influence." He wrote over 80 plays (some say 90), and he won his first victory at the

20. Aeschylus - MSN Encarta
    aeschylus (525?456 bc), Greek dramatist, the earliest of the great tragic poets of Athens. As the predecessor of Sophocles and Euripides, he is  
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