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aeschylus
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Greek Aiskhylos, Athenian soldier, poet, and playwright, Father of Tragedy (525-456 B.C.E.).
Wikipedia
Aeschylus ( or ; Aiskhulos; ; c. 525/524 – c. 456/455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian. His plays, alongside those of Sophocles and Euripides, are the only works of Classical Greek literature to have survived. He is often described as the father of tragedy: critics' and scholars' knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier tragedies is largely based on inferences from his surviving plays. According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of characters in theater to allow conflict among them, whereas characters previously had interacted only with the chorus.
Only seven of his estimated seventy to ninety plays have survived, and there is a longstanding debate regarding his authorship of one of these plays, Prometheus Bound, which some believe his son Euphorion actually wrote. Fragments of some other plays have survived in quotes and more continue to be discovered on Egyptian papyrus, often giving us surprising insights into his work. He was probably the first dramatist to present plays as a trilogy; his Oresteia is the only ancient example of the form to have survived. At least one of his plays was influenced by the Persians' second invasion of Greece (480–479 BC). This work, The Persians, is the only surviving classical Greek tragedy concerned with contemporary events (very few of that kind were ever written), and a useful source of information about its period. The significance of war in Ancient Greek culture was so great that Aeschylus' epitaph commemorates his participation in the Greek victory at Marathon while making no mention of his success as a playwright. Despite this, Aeschylus' work – particularly the Oresteia – is acclaimed by today's literary academics.
Several people or things bear the name Aeschylus:
- Aeschylus, Athenian playwright of the 5th century BC, best known for the Oresteia trilogy
- Aeschylus of Athens, King of Athens from 778-755 BC
- Aeschylus of Alexandria, epic poet in the 2nd century
- Aeschylus of Cnidus, contemporary of Cicero, and one of the most celebrated rhetoricians in Asia Minor
- Aeschylus of Rhodes, governor of that city after its conquest by Alexander the Great
- 2876 Aeschylus, asteroid named after the playwright
Usage examples of "aeschylus".
No wonder poor old Aeschylus felt a bit sick when it fell on his head!
Even after centuries have passed, and though he should be an Aeschylus or a Tacitus, any one raising the cover would smell the stench.
The unprecedented drama was in five acts, so fierce that Aeschylus himself would not have dared to dream of them.
Nor were you a dramatist, so your thoughts were unlikely to have either the rigor or beauty of a philosophical dramatist such as Aeschylus or Sophocles.
Rhee Soon-Ka sat, unobserved, taking notes, for this was the kind of day she had long anticipated: as a modern Aeschylus, she knew what hubris was.
Greek city hardly twenty years after Aeschylus himself had fought the invading Persians at Salamis!
However, all tastes had to be catered for, so one small venue was reserved for highbrow drama by Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides.
When the once applauded dramatist Aeschylus lost a prize to the currently applauded Sophocles, he was so enraged that he left Athens for Sicily, where he came to a most satisfying end.
Aeschylus built a trilogy around Agamemnon, Sophocles built a trilogy about Oedipus, and so on.
Aeschylus warns me not to kick against the pricks, also Euripides and I believe Pindar, and if I were to check the New Testament I think I would find the injunction there as well, and so I obey, I kick not, even when the pricks are fiercest.