Aeschylus
At a glance:
- Series: Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476
- Categories: Literature, Publishing, Arts
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Drama, Theater, Playwrights, Hellenistic Age, Ancient Greece
- Curriculum: Western Civilization/European History, Ancient History
Article abstract: Greek playwright{$I[g]Greece;Aeschylus} Aeschylus’s dramaturgy marks a major stage in the development of Western theater, especially tragedy.
Early Life
Knowledge of the life of Aeschylus (EHS-kuh-luhs) is limited by minimal and unreliable sources. A Hellenistic biography surviving in the manuscript tradition of Aeschylus’s plays is filled with ancient gossip, conjecture, and elaboration. The only extant portraits of the dramatist are probably not authentic.
Aeschylus was born about 525-524 b.c.e. in Eleusis, an Attic town...
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