Aeschylus
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- Author: Aeschylus
Biography
Aeschylus (EHS-kuh-luhs) was the earliest of the great tragic poets and dramatists of Athens, the predecessor of Euripides and Sophocles. He was the first dramatist whose tragedies (seven out of some eighty to ninety) have been preserved. He was the son of Euphorion, a well-born landowner of Eleusis, the city of the mysteries of Demeter. He fought in the battle of Marathon, 490 b.c.e., and possibly at Salamis. He won fame at Athens because of his tragedies and more than once visited Hiero, the king of Syracuse, to produce tragedies there....
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