61. Aeschylus - Definition This article is about the ancient Greek playwright. For other uses, see aeschylus (disambiguation) aeschylus (525 — 456 BC; Greek Αισχυλος) was a playwright of ancient Greece. http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Aeschylus

Aeschylus - Definition This article is about the ancient Greek playwright. For other uses, see Aeschylus (disambiguation) Aeschylus 456 BC Greek ) was a playwright of ancient Greece . Born in Eleusis , a district of the Athenian state, 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. Aeschylus was the earliest of the three greatest Greek tragedians, the others being Sophocles and Euripides . Aeschylus' work has a strong moral and religious emphasis. Many of his plays end more "happily" than those of the other two; namely, his masterpiece The Oresteia trilogy. The Suppliants, the Persians, the Seven Against Thebes and the first two parts of the Oresteia end unhappily. Besides the literary merit of his work, Aeschylus' greatest contribution to the theater was the addition of a second actor to his scenes. Previously, the action took place between a single actor and the Greek chorus . This invention was only attributed to him by later tradition, however.

62. Aeschylus (525?-456 BC) Greek Writer. (525?456 BC) Greek writer. aeschylus was the first of three great Greek writers of tragedy, which included Sophocles and Euripides. aeschylus wrote perhaps 90 plays (7 survive in http://classiclit.about.com/od/aeschylus/Aeschylus.htm

zWASL=1 zGL='0';zGR='ca-about-radlink'; zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') zDO=0 Home Education Classic Literature Classic Literature Search Classic Literature Filed In: A-to-Z Writers A-to-Z Writers A - Writers - Last Names Aeschylus (525?-456 BC) Greek writer. Aeschylus was the first of three great Greek writers of tragedy, which included Sophocles and Euripides. Aeschylus wrote perhaps 90 plays (7 survive in full) and won 13 first prizes at the Greater Dionysia. Dramatists / Playwrights @ Greece - Find Greek Literat @ Greek Writers - From Greece @ Aeschylus - Greek Playwright Aeschylus Aeschylus was the first of the three great ancient Greek writers of tragedy. zSB(3,3) Books About What to Read If you're wondering what great classics you should read, here are some books that will help. These books list hundreds of works from Homer through Edgar Allan Poe and Gustave Flaubert to Virginia Woolf and Franz Kafka. Read more about what to read in literature. Profile: Aeschylus (525?-456 BC) Greek writer. Aeschylus has been called the "Father of Tragedy," with more than 90 plays (though 7 survive). Read more about the life and works of Aeschylus. Greek Tragedy II - Aeschylus - Career of Aeschylus Aeschylus, one of the three renowned prize-winning Greek tragedians, engaged in a variety of activities. He was a soldier, playwright, religious participant, and probably an actor.

63. Enjoying "Prometheus Bound", By Aeschylus Background information and links related to the story of Prometheus. http://www.pathguy.com/promethe.htm

Enjoying "Prometheus Bound", by Aeschylus Ed Friedlander MD scalpel_blade@yahoo.com No texting or chat messages, please. Ordinary e-mails are welcome. The beautiful fables of the Greeks, being proper creations of the imagination and not of the fancy, are universal verities. What a range of meanings and what perpetual pertinence has the story of Prometheus! Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Essays" Prometheus stole fire and gave it to the human race. For this, he was bound to a mountain and punished for centuries. This basic Greek myth was retold through the classic era and provided the plot for Aeschylus's "Prometheus Bound". This site will help you as you search the background and meaning of this play, and ideas about the story of Prometheus generally. The Myths of Prometheus Prometheus was one of the Titans, the original race of gods sprung from earth and sky. He sided with Zeus and the other major gods of classical Greece when they overthrew the other Titans. The titans are listed by Hesiod in his Theogony as a group of twelve major gods, including allegorically-named Kronos ("time"), Mnemosyne ("memory / remembrance"), Themis ("justice"), Phoebe ("brightness"), Oceanus ("the ocean"), Hyperion ("the high one"), Tethys and Theia (both mean "the goddess / the revered lady"). Prometheus is usually listed as the son of the titan Iapetus. This could be the same name as "Japeth", ancestor of the Europeans in the Old Testament, and/or as "Giapetto", creator of Pinocchio. Herodotus (Histories) tells us that Prometheus's wife was named Asia, and that the continent of Asia was named for her. Aeschylus has Themis as mother of Prometheus.

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