1. Aeschylus A biography of the Greek dramatist aeschylus. According to tradition the great service of aeschylus to Greek drama had its beginnings in a dream truth in the story or not, aeschylus must have http://www.theatredatabase.com/ancient/aeschylus_001.html

Home Ancient Theatre Medieval Theatre 16th Century ... Email Us AESCHYLUS (c. 525-456 B.C.) I N the lives of the three great Greek tragedians, tradition is so mixed with fact, and the facts themselves frequently so uncertain, that it is hard to tell where one leaves off and the other begins. According to tradition the great service of Aeschylus to Greek drama had its beginnings in a dream. One night when he was watching his father's flocks, the gods in a vision commanded him to write tragic dramas for their glorification in the religious festivals. Whether there is anything of truth in the story or not, Aeschylus must have begun writing plays at an early age for we find him when scarcely twenty-five years old competing in the dramatic contests held yearly in honor of the god Dionysus. It was fifteen years, however, before he carried off first prize. Meanwhile, he had learned his craft so well that from his first success in 484 B.C. he continued to win almost continuously until his death. The parents of Aeschylus belonged to the old Attic nobility so that family life and traditions tended to make him a broadminded conservative, both in politics and religion. The circumstance that his birthplace, Eleusis, was the center of the worship of the goddess, Demeter, probably is largely responsible for his keen religious consciousness, and the fact that in all his extant plays the unvarying motive is the relentless power of Fate and the ultimate justice of Providence.

2. Aeschylus And His Tragedies Click Here. aeschylus AND HIS TRAGEDIES. This document was originally withmagificence. . Improvements Introduced by aeschylus. Many were http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/aeschylus001.html

AESCHYLUS AND HIS TRAGEDIES This document was originally published in The Drama: Its History, Literature and Influence on Civilization, vol. 1 . ed. Alfred Bates. London: Historical Publishing Company, 1906. pp. 53-59. Purchase Plays by Aeschylus This tomb the dust of Aeschylus doth hide, Euphorion's son and fruitful Gela's pride; How tried his valor Marathon may tell, And long-haired Medes, who knew it all too well. In a trilogy, or set of three connected plays, of which only his survives, he celebrated the glorious contests which he had witnessed, and for this also he gained the prize. Though defeated by Sophocles at his first attempt, the veteran Aeschylus regained his position with the series of which Seven Against Thebes was a part, and thenceforth his supremacy was undisputed. The real "father of tragedy" Aeschylus has been justly termed, certainly deserving this title far more than Thespis, for he it was who, as Aristophanes says, "first decked out tragedy with magificence." Improvements Introduced by Aeschylus Many were the improvements which Aeschylus introduced, especially in diminishing the importance of the chorus and in adding a second actor, thus giving prominence to the dialogue and making it the leading feature of the play. He removed all deeds of bloodshed from the public view, and in their place provided many spectacular elements, improving the costumes, making the masks more expressive and convenient, and probably adopting the cothurnus to increase the stature of the performers. Finally, he established the custom of contending for the prize with trilogies, or series of three independent dramas.

3. Aeschylus Collection At Bartleby.com aeschylus. Bartleby.com of the three great Greek writers of tragedy, aeschylus was the predecessor of Sophocles and Euripides.continue at Epitomal selections by John Bartlett. aeschylus, 3024 http://www.bartleby.com/people/Aeschylu.html

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4. Aeschylus (c. 525-456 BC) Biography of Greek playwright aeschylus, plus links to all of hisworks currently in print. Click Here. aeschylus. The Father of http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc3.htm

Home Theatre Links Advertise Here Email Us Aeschylus The "Father of Tragedy," Aeschylus was born in 525 B.C. in the city of Eleusis. Immersed early in the mystic rites of the city and in the worship of the Mother and Earth goddess Demeter, he was once sent as a child to watch grapes ripening in the countryside. According to Aeschylus, when he dozed off, Dionysus appeared to him in a dream and ordered him to write tragedies. The obedient young Aeschylus began a tragedy the next morning and "succeeded very easily." When Aeschylus first began writing, the theatre had only just begun to evolve. Plays were little more than animated oratorios or choral poetry supplemented with expressive dance. A chorus danced and exchanged dialogue with a single actor who portrayed one or more characters primarily by the use of masks. Most of the action took place in the circular dancing area or "orchestra" which still remained from the old days when drama had been nothing more than a circular dance around a sacred object. It was a huge leap for drama when Aeschylus introduced the second actor. He also attempted to involve the chorus directly in the action of the play. In

5. The Internet Classics Archive | Works By Aeschylus List of works by aeschylus, part of the Internet Classics Archive Works by aeschylus. Agamemnon. Written 458 B.C.E http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/browse-Aeschylus.html

Home Search Buy Books and CD-ROMs ... Help Works by Aeschylus Agamemnon Written 458 B.C.E Translated by E. D. A. Morshead Read discussion : 55 comments The Choephori Written 450 B.C.E Translated by E. D. A. Morshead Read discussion : 1 comment Eumenides Written 458 B.C.E Translated by E. D. A. Morshead Read discussion : 10 comments The Persians Written 472 B.C.E Translated by Robert Potter Read discussion : 6 comments Prometheus Bound Written ca. 430 B.C.E Read discussion : 39 comments The Seven Against Thebes Written 467 B.C.E Translated by E. D. A. Morshead Read discussion : 5 comments The Suppliants Written ca. 463 B.C.E Translated by E. D. A. Morshead Read discussion : 2 comments

6. Aeschylus Index ARTICLES. aeschylus and His Tragedies Biography of the Greek dramatistand analysis of his poetic qualities. Find more articles on aeschylus http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/aeschylus.html

Home Ancient Theatre Greek : Aeschylus ARTICLES Aeschylus and His Tragedies - Biography of the Greek dramatist and analysis of his poetic qualities. Aeschylus: Bibliography - A list of his surviving works; also includes a list of critical resources. Aeschylus Characterized - A brief poetic impression of the poet's works. Aeschylus Forever Lost - An account of the destruction of the complete works of Aeschylus. Aeschylus Monologues - An index of monologues by the Greek dramatist. Aeschylus: Poems - An index of poems by the Greek dramatist. Aeschylus: The First Great Playwright - Details of the poet's life. Changes Made by Aeschylus - An analysis of the innovations made by Aeschylus in the drama. The Eclipse of Aeschylus - Revered as Aeschylus was in his life and honored in his death, yet there arose a generation that laughed at his archaic diction and ridiculed his plots. The Oresteia - Summary and analysis of the dramatic trilogy consisting of: Agamemnon , and The Eumenides Patriotic and Religious Ideas of Aeschylus - Like most of the earlier Athenian poets, Aeschylus was intensely national. His plays reveal a constant care and anxiety for Greece and the traditions of greatness which she inherited.

7. Great Books Index - Aeschylus aeschylus Great Books Index. GREAT BOOKS INDEX. aeschylus (524455 BC) Have you written an online publication about aeschylus? Please send the URL so it may be considered for a link. http://books.mirror.org/gb.aeschylus.html

GREAT BOOKS INDEX Aeschylus (524455 BC) An Index to Online Great Books in English Translation AUTHORS/HOME TITLES ABOUT GB INDEX BOOK LINKS Plays by Aeschylus Persians Seven Against Thebes Suppliant Maidens Agamemnon ... Articles The Persians (472 BC) HTML edition in small sections (Perseus, Tufts) Translated by Herbert Weir Smith. Greek text also available. HTML edition in one document (Classics Archive, 90KB) Translated by Robert Potter. Text of play in one file (Adelaide, 60KB) Translated by Robert Potter. [Back to Top of Page] Seven Against Thebes (468 BC) HTML edition in small sections (Perseus, Tufts) Translated by Herbert Weir Smith. Greek text also available. HTML edition in one document (Classics Archive, 90KB) Translated by E.D.A. Morshead. Text of play in one file (Adelaide, 60KB) Translated by E.D.A. Morshead. [Back to Top of Page] The Suppliant Maidens (about 463 BC) HTML edition in small sections (Perseus, Tufts) Translated by Herbert Weir Smith. Greek text also available. HTML edition in one document (Classics Archive, 100KB) Translated by E.D.A. Morshead.

8. The Internet Classics Archive | Agamemnon By Aeschylus Agamemnon By aeschylus. Commentary Quite a few comments have been postedabout Agamemnon. Read them or add your own. Reader Recommendations http://classics.mit.edu/Aeschylus/agamemnon.html

Home Browse and Comment Search ... Help Agamemnon By Aeschylus Commentary: Quite a few comments have been posted about Agamemnon Read them or add your own Reader Recommendations: Recommend a Web site you feel is appropriate to this work, list recommended Web sites , or visit a random recommended Web site Download: A 85k text-only version is available for download Agamemnon By Aeschylus Written 458 B.C.E Translated by E. D. A. Morshead Dramatis Personae A WATCHMAN CHORUS OF ARGIVE ELDERS CLYTEMNESTRA, wife of AGAMEMNON A HERALD AGAMEMNON, King of Argos CASSANDRA, daughter of Priam, and slave of AGAMEMNON AEGISTHUS, son of Thyestes, cousin of AGAMEMNON Servants, Attendants, Soldiers Scene Before the palace of AGAMEMNON in Argos. In front of the palace there are statues of the gods, and altars prepared for sacrifice. It is night. On the roof of the palace can be discerned a WATCHMAN. WATCHMAN I pray the gods to quit me of my toils, To close the watch I keep, this livelong year; For as a watch-dog lying, not at rest, Propped on one arm, upon the palace-roof Of Atreus' race, too long, too well I know

9. AESCHYLUS aeschylus. 525 456 BC. Greek Playwright. aeschylus was the earliest of the great Greek tragedians and the principal creator of Greek drama. He is called the 'Father of Tragedy'. www link aeschylus http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/people_n2/persons1_n2/aeschylus.html

AESCHYLUS 525 - 456 BC Greek Playwright Aeschylus was the earliest of the great Greek tragedians and the principal creator of Greek drama. He is called the 'Father of Tragedy'. Aeschylus fought for Athens at Marathon (490 BC), helping defeat invading Persia. His first prize in a dramatic contest came in 484 BC, followed eight years later by his earliest extant work, 'The Persians'. Before Aeschylus, tragedies had a single actor, who could only respond to suggestions of the chorus. By adding a second actor, Aeschylus was able to show intrigue and conflict. He reduced the chorus in size, lessening its importance in favour of dramatic dialogue. The chorus assumed a secondary role, commenting, warning or setting the mood for the action of the play which was now carried by the actors. Of the 90 or so plays Aeschylus wrote, only seven have survived in complete form, among them the 'Oresteia' trilogy, 'The Seven against Thebes' and 'Prometheus Bound'. www link : Aeschylus

10. Aeschylus: Monologues An index of monologues by the Greek dramatist aeschylus. http://www.monologuearchive.com/a/aeschylus.html

MONOLOGUES BY AESCHYLUS: Agamemnon - dramatic monologue for a woman. Agamemnon - dramatic monologue for a woman. Agamemnon - dramatic monologue for a man. Choephori, or The Libation Bearers - dramatic monologue for a woman. Choephori, or The Libation Bearers - dramatic monologue for a woman. Eumenides - dramatic monologue for a woman. The Persians - dramatic monologue for a woman. Prometheus Bound - dramatic monologue for a man. Prometheus Bound - dramatic monologue for a woman. The Seven Against Thebes - dramatic monologue for a man. The Suppliants - dramatic monologue for a woman. RELATED LINKS: Aeschylus - A biography. Aeschylus - A biography.

11. Enjoying "The Seven Against Thebes", By Aeschylus Provides a general overview of contemporary issues and major themes, compiled by Ed Friedlander. http://www.pathguy.com/7thebes.htm

Enjoying "The Seven Against Thebes", by Aeschylus Ed Friedlander MD scalpel_blade@yahoo.com Readers of "The Seven Against Thebes" will enjoy this little introduction to the themes and personalities in ths play. Translate this page automatically Aeschylus wrote this play for presentation in 467 BC, where it won first prize in the tragedy division of the annual Athenian dramatic contest. Before Aeschylus, Greek plays featured a single character in dialogue with the chorus. Aeschylus is supposed to have originated the idea of having a second character onstage (Eteocles and the scout, Antigone and Ismene). Background "There are many things that are worse than war. They all begin with defeat." Before we had reliable birth control, population pressures made war between neighboring communities inevitable. Whole towns would be enslaved or exterminated so that the conquerors could expand. The chorus in "The Seven Against Thebes" describes, in vivid detail, what happened to the conquered people. Real security was offered only by the "empires", i.e., huge protection rackets such as contemporary Persia. In return for keeping peace, empires would bleed communities of their resources. And even this security was only temporary, since empires themselves often were at war with each other. When Aeschylus wrote this play, the Athenians and Spartans had just successfully resisted Persia's attempts at domination. The Greeks felt that this represented a triumph for a freer way fo life. In Sparta, independence was maintained by an extremely disciplined military culture. Athens, by contrast, experimented with democracy and cultural innovation.

12. Klytaimestra: A Study Of Aeschylus' Agamemnon 1372-1576 Christopher Harvey's thesis exploring the character of Clytemnestra from a passage in the Oresteia. Provided in three annotated sections, with abstract and bibliography. http://academic.reed.edu/classics/harveythesis/thesis.html

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13. The Sound Of Ancient Greek - Classical Pronunciation Short readings of Homer's Iliad, aeschylus' Agamemnon, and Plato's Symposium. http://www.oeaw.ac.at/kal/agp/

Commission for Ancient Literature Austrian Academy of Sciences Visit also: Ancient Greek Music - The Extant Fragments Homeric Singing - Towards the Original Performance The Sound of Ancient Greek - Classical Pronunciation The following samples use classical phonemes as well as a reconstruction of the classical pitch accent, applied to the domain of the word and appositive group as well as of the phrase. Homer, Iliad 18.39-96 Catalogue of Nereids, dialogue between Thetis and Achilles [ Text Aischylos, Agamemnon 503-537 Messenger arriving at Argos [ Text Plato, Symposion 172f The initial narration. [ Text Bibliography W. S. Allen, Vox Graeca: A Guide To The Pronunciation Of Classical Greek, Cambridge 1987. [focusing on phonemes G. Danek S. Hagel , Zu den Konstituenten des griechischen Hexameters, Wiener Studien 107/108 (1994), 77-108. A. M. Devine / L. D. Stephens , The Prosody of Greek Speech, New York / Oxford 1994. [Indispensable for everyone interested in Ancient Greek accent G. Danek / S. Hagel , Homer-Singen Top of the page Stefan Hagel Visitors since 07.03.2001: FastCounter by bCentral

14. MSN Encarta - Aeschylus Brief biography. http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761555605

15. The Little Sailing Ancient Greek texts in Unicode encoding including aeschylus, Apollodorous, Aristotle, Aristophanes, Euripides, Hesiod, Homer, Lucian, Plutarch, Thucydides, and Xenophon. Some texts are with sideby-side translation. http://www.mikrosapoplous.gr/en/

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16. Aeschylus aeschylus. 525 BC 456 BC. aeschyluswas born in the city of Eleusis, near Athens, in 525 BC and died in 456 BC. He was a Greek dramatist, the earliest of the city's great tragic poets. attempted http://www.crystalinks.com/aeschylus.html

17. The Internet Classics Archive | Prometheus Bound By Aeschylus !quoteTitle by aeschylus, part of the Internet Classics Archive Prometheus Bound. By aeschylus. Commentary Many comments have been posted about Prometheus Bound Prometheus Bound. By aeschylus. Written ca. 430 B.C.E http://classics.mit.edu/Aeschylus/prometheus.html

Home Browse and Comment Search ... Help Prometheus Bound By Aeschylus Commentary: Many comments have been posted about Prometheus Bound Read them or add your own Reader Recommendations: Recommend a Web site you feel is appropriate to this work, list recommended Web sites , or visit a random recommended Web site Download: A 56k text-only version is available for download Prometheus Bound By Aeschylus Written ca. 430 B.C.E Dramatis Personae KRATOS BIA HEPHAESTUS PROMETHEUS CHORUS OF THE OCEANIDES OCEANUS IO Scene Mountainous country, and in the middle of a deep gorge a Rock, towards which KRATOS and BIA carry the gigantic form of PROMETHEUS. HEPHAESTUS follows dejectedly with hammer, nails, chains, etc. KRATOS Now have we journeyed to a spot of earth Remote-the Scythian wild, a waste untrod. And now, Hephaestus, thou must execute The task our father laid on thee, and fetter This malefactor to the jagged rocks In adamantine bonds infrangible; For thine own blossom of all forging fire He stole and gave to mortals; trespass grave For which the Gods have called him to account, That he may learn to bear Zeus' tyranny And cease to play the lover of mankind.

18. Aeschylus. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 2001. aeschylus. The first of the three great Greek writers of tragedy,aeschylus was the predecessor of Sophocles and Euripides. 1. http://www.bartleby.com/65/ae/Aeschylu.html

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19. Aeschylus: Poems A collection of poems by the Greek dramatist. http://www.poetry-archive.com/a/aeschylus.html

POEMS BY AESCHYLUS: The Battle of Salamis The Beacon Fires Lament for the Two Brothers Slain by Each Other's Hand Prometheus Amid Hurricane and Earthquake ... Song of the Furies RELATED WEBSITES Aeschylus - A biography of the "Father of Greek drama." Aeschylus (c. 525-456 B.C.) - A biography of the Greek dramatist, plus links to purchase all of his works currently in print. Aeschylus and His Tragedies - Biography of the Greek dramatist and analysis of his poetic qualities. Aeschylus: Bibliography - A list of his surviving works. Aeschylus Characterized - A brief poetic impression of the poet's works. Aeschylus Forever Lost - An account of the destruction of the complete works of Aeschylus. Aeschylus: The First Great Playwright - Details of the poet's life. Aeschylus Monologues - An index of monologues.

20. Aeschylus - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia aeschylus. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about theplaywright. aeschylus was also a King of Athens from 778755 BC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeschylus

Main Page Recent changes Edit this page Page history ... Printable version Not logged in Log in Help Other languages: Deutsch Polski Aeschylus From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the playwright. Aeschylus was also a King of Athens from 755 BC Asteroid 2876 Aeschylus is named after the playwright. Aeschylus 525 BC 456 BC ) was a playwright of ancient Greece . Born in Eleusis , he wrote his first plays in 498 BC , but his earliest surviving play is possibly The Suppliants , written in approximately 490 BC . That same year, he participated in the Battle of Marathon , and in 480 BC he fought at the Battle of Salamis . Salamis was the subject of his play The Persians , written in 472 BC ; it is possible that The Suppliants was written after this, making The Persians his earliest surviving play. Aeschylus was the earliest of the three greatest Greek tragedians, the others being Sophocles and Euripides . Aeschylus' work has a strong moral and religious emphasis. Many of his plays end more "happily" than those of the other two; namely, his masterpiece The Oresteia trilogy. Besides the literary merit of his work, Aeschylus' greatest contribution to the theater was the addition of a second actor to his scenes. Previously, the action took place between a single actor and the

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