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The Life of AeschylusAESCHYLUS, the son of Euphorion, was born m the last quarter of the slxth century B.C , probably about 5 I3 or 5 I2 B c. The great Persian Wars occurred during his early manhood, and he fought, certainly at Marathon (where his brother was blled m act1on) and probably also at ArtemlSlum, Salam1s, and Plataea. He is sa1d to have begun at an early age to wnte traged1es, his first v1ctory was in 484 B.C. In or about 476 B c. he visited Sldy and, at the mstance of Hieron of Syracuse, Pmdar's fnend, produced The Women of Etna at the new C1ty of Etna wh1ch H1eron had founded. In 472 he produced his Persians at Athens, w1th Pencles as his choregus (or officlal sponsor) and re-produced 1t, presumably in the next year, in Sicuy.Back in Athens 10 468, he was defeated by the young Sophocles, but won again ln 467 with a set of plays including The Seven against Thebes. In 458 he presented the Oresteia (Agamemnon, The LibationBearers, The Eumenides). He died in Ge1a, Sicily, in 456 or 455 B.C., leaving behind him an epitaph wh1ch m1ght be rendered as follows:Under thIs monument lIes Aeschylus the Atheman, Euphonon's son, who dIed In the wheatlands of Gela. The grove of Marath

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Author

Aeschylus - Ed. David Grene and Richmond Lattimore

Published

1959

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Fiction, Mathematics, Classics