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| | MSN Encarta - Aeschylus |
 | | Aeschylus (525-456 bc), Greek dramatist, born in Eleusis, near Athens, he was the earliest of the city's great tragic poets. |
 | | His tragedies, first performed about 500 bc, were presented as trilogies, or groups of three, usually bound together by a common theme, and each trilogy was followed by a satyr drama (low comedy involving a mythological hero, with a chorus of satyrs). |
 | | The remaining three plays, Agamemnon, Cheophoroi (The Libation Bearers), and Eumenides (The Furies), produced in 458 bc, form the trilogy known as the Oresteia, or story of Orestes. |
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