A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Aischylos
Eschilo
Eschyle
Esquilo
Ésquilo
Αἰσχύλος
Birthplace:
Eleusis, Greece
Aeschylus (Ancient Greek: Αἰσχύλος c. 525/524 – c. 456/455 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 in complete form. 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 of his son Euphorion. Fragments from other plays have survived in quotations, and more continue to be discovered on Egyptian papyri. These fragments often give further insights into Aeschylus' work. He was likely the first dramatist to present plays as a trilogy. His Oresteia is the only extant ancient example. At least one of his plays was influenced by the Persians' second invasion of Greece (480–479 BC). This work, The Persians, is one of very few classical Greek tragedies concerned with contemporary events, and the only one extant. The significance of the war with Persia was so great to Aeschylus and the Greeks that his epitaph commemorates his participation in the Greek victory at Marathon while making no mention of his success as a playwright.
Author:
2004 Prometheus Bound
Original Story:
1972 Fragments of an Alms-Film
2004 Prometheus Bound
Theatre Play:
1959 Hercules Unchained
1961 The Persians
1967 The Illiac Passion
1969 Forgotten Pistolero
1972 Fragments of an Alms-Film
1972 Orestea
1975 Prometheus Second Person, Singular
1978 Trails
1983 The Oresteia
1998 Prometheus Retrogressing
2004 Prometheus Bound
2010 L'Orestie
2015 Le Supplici di Eschilo - Teatro greco di Siracusa
2015 Prometheus
2021 Prometheus Bound
2021 The Oresteia
Writer:
1959 Hercules Unchained
1961 The Persians
1967 The Illiac Passion
1969 Forgotten Pistolero
1972 Fragments of an Alms-Film
1972 Orestea
1975 Prometheus Second Person, Singular
1975 The Persians
1978 Trails
1983 The Oresteia
1998 Prometheus Retrogressing
2004 Prometheus Bound
2010 L'Orestie
2015 Le Supplici di Eschilo - Teatro greco di Siracusa
2015 Prometheus
2021 Prometheus Bound
2021 The Oresteia
Theatre Play:
1979 The Serpent Son
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