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Aeschylus

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Eleusis, Greece

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Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Theatre

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Greek Αισχύλος , Esquilo in Spanish, Eschyle in French, Eschilo in Italian, Эсхил in Russian.

Aeschylus (c. 525/524 BC – c. 456 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian often described as the father of tragedy. Academic knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier Greek tragedy is largely based on inferences made from reading his surviving plays. According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of characters in the theatre and allowed conflict among them. Formerly, characters interacted only with the chorus.
Only seven of Aeschylus's estimated 70 to 90 plays have survived. There is a long-standing debate regarding the authorship of one of them, Prometheus Bound, with some scholars arguing that it may be the work o ...more

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	The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides by Aeschylus, Robert Fagles (Editor), W.B. Stanford (Editor) 4.01 avg rating — 44,080 ratings — published -458 — 409 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1) by Aeschylus, Philip de May, P.E. Easterling (Introduction) 3.83 avg rating — 20,902 ratings — published -472 — 1052 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prometheus Bound 3.93 avg rating — 19,311 ratings — published -480 — 738 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prometheus Bound and Other Plays 3.99 avg rating — 8,358 ratings — published -470 — 103 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eumenides (Oresteia, #3) by Aeschylus, Alan H. Sommerstein, Αισχύλος 3.85 avg rating — 4,480 ratings — published -458 — 221 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Persians 3.60 avg rating — 4,248 ratings — published -472 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Libation Bearers (Oresteia, #2) 3.80 avg rating — 3,516 ratings — published -458 — 364 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Seven Against Thebes 3.72 avg rating — 3,393 ratings — published -467 — 146 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Suppliants 3.41 avg rating — 1,677 ratings — published -463 — 196 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Greek Tragedy by Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles 4.19 avg rating — 1,297 ratings — published 1988 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Oresteia (4 books)
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Aeschylus,

Robert Fagles (Editor),

W.B. Stanford (Editor)

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