Aeschylus was an ancient Greek playwright. He is often recognized as the father of tragedy and is the earliest of the three Greek tragedians whose plays survive, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.
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Drama, Greek Mythology, Translations into English, Greek drama (Tragedy), Continental european drama (dramatic works by one author), Orestes (Greek mythology), Greek drama, Drama (dramatic works by one author), Prometheus (Greek deity), Agamemnon (Greek mythology), Seven against Thebes (Greek mythology), History, Greek drama, translations into english, Electra (Greek mythology), Erinyes (Greek mythology), Translations from Greek, Aeschylus, Translations into German, English drama, Greek language materials, Danaus (Greek mythology), History and criticism, Polyneices (Greek mythology), Translations into Italian, Criticism and interpretationPeople
Aeschylus, Agamemnon King of Mycenae (Mythological character), Orestes King of Argos (Mythological character), Electra (Greek mythological figure), Prometheus (Greek deity), Danaus King of Argos (Mythological character), Xerxes I King of Persia (519-465 or 4 B.C), Eteocles King of Thebes (Mythological character), Polynices (Greek mythological figure), John Lewin, Aeschylus. Prometheus bound, Apollo (Deity), Iphigenia, Jupiter (Greek deity), Prometheus (Greek mythology), Promethius (Greek deity), Sophocles, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848-1931), Vulcan (Greek deity), Xerxes I King of Persia (519 B.C.-465 B.C. or 464 B.C), ZeusTime
Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C., Persian Wars, 500 B.C.-449 B.C., 19th century, Ancient Greece, Persian wars, 500-449 B.C., Scythia, the uttermost verge of the EarthID Numbers
- OLID: OL74434A
- ISNI: 0000000121407828
- VIAF: 268526195
- Wikidata: Q40939
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q40939
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Alternative names
- Αἰσχύλος
- Aiskhulos
- Eschyle
- Aischylos
- Æschylus
- Aeschylus Aeschylus
- Aeschylus (Aiskhylos)
- . Aeschylus.
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