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• 490 BC     The Suppliants
• 472 BC     The Persians
• 467 BC     Seven Harm Thebes
• ??? BC     Prometheus Bound
• 458 BC     Agamemnon
• 458 BC     The Liba
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Aeschylus

Aeschylus
Aeschylus
Born	c. 525 BC Eleusis, Greece
Died	c. 456 BC Gela, Sicily, Italy
Occupation	Playwright; soldier
Nationality	Greek
Period	Ancient Greece
Genre	Tragedy
Subject	Greek life and history
Notable works	The Persians
Notable awards	Won at the Great Dionysia 13 times.
Children	Euphorion and Euæon
Relatives	Philocles (nephew)

Aeschylus (525 BC – 456 BC) was an Ancient Greek poet and writer. He wrote about 70–90 plays.^[1][2] Only six of his tragedies have survived complete. Aeschylus was the earliest of the three greatest Greek writers of tragedians. The two others were Sophocles and Euripides.^[1][3]

Aristotle said that Aeschylus added more characters into his plays. His characters spoke to each other and not just to the chorus. This made it easier to create drama between the characters.

One of his plays, The Persians, was about the Persian invasion of Greece. Aeschylus had fought in this war. People studying Greek history use his play as an important source of information. The war was so important to the Greeks and to Aeschylus, that the writing on his grave only talks about his part in the Greek victory at the Battle of Marathon. There is nothing a

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Aeschylus

5th century BC Athenian Greek tragedian

This article is about the ancient Greek playwright. For other uses, see Aeschylus (disambiguation).

Aeschylus
Roman marble herma of Aeschylus dating to c. 30 BC, based on an earlier bronze Greek herma, dating to around 340-320 BC
Born	c. 525/524 BC Eleusis
Died	c. 456 BC (aged approximately 67) Gela, Sicily
Occupation(s)	Playwright and soldier
Children
Parent	Euphorion (father)
Relatives

Aeschylus (,^[1];^[2]Ancient Greek: ΑἰσχύλοςAischýlos; c. 525/524 – c. 456/455 BC) was an ancient Greektragedian often described as the father of tragedy.^[3][4] Academic knowledge of the genre begins with his work,^[5] and understanding of earlier Greek tragedy is largely based on inferences made from reading his surviving plays.^[6] According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of characters in the theatre and allowed conflict among them. Formerly, characters interacted only with the chorus.^{[nb 1]}

Only seven of Aeschylus's estimated 70 to 90 plays have survived in complete form. There is a long-standing debate regarding the authorship of one of them, Prometheus Bound, with some scholars arguing that