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	Aeschylus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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, concentrating on man's position in the cosmos in relation to the gods, divine law and divine punishment in the Oresteia trilogy.
		Attributed to Aeschylus in antiquity, it is generally considered by modern scholars to be the work of an unknown 4th century BC playwright.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aeschylus (513 words)

	AESCHYLUS - LoveToKnow Article on AESCHYLUS
		The vigour and loftiness of tone which mark Aeschylus' poetic work was not only due, we may be sure, to his native genius and gifts, powerful as they were, but were partly inspired by the personal share he took in the great actions of a heroic national uprising.
		We know that Aeschylus' predecessor, Phrynichus, had already twice tried this experiment, with the Capture of Miletus and the Phoenician Women; that the latter play dealt with the same subject as the Persae, and the handling of its opening scene was imitated by the younger poet.
		Aeschylus always has a taste for the unseen and the supernatural; and one effective incident here is the raising of Darius's ghost, and his prophecy of the disastrous battle of Plataea.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AE/AESCHYLUS.htm (4546 words)

	Aeschylus and His Tragedies
		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.
		The story as to the manner of his death, that an eagle, mistaking his bald head for a stone, dropped a tortoise upon it to break the shell, is the sheerest fabrication, and, it would seem, entirely unnecessary to account for the natural death of an exile nearly seventy years of age.
		Aeschylus was the only man of his age, or indeed of any age, who can compare with the great master of the modern drama in sublimity of conception and grandeur of poetic imagery.
	www.theatrehistory.com /ancient/aeschylus001.html (1590 words)

	Aeschylus
		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.
		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.
		Aeschylus spent a great part of his mature life at the court of Hieron, tyrant of Syracuse, returning to Athens to supervise the production of his dramas for the contests, in which he apparently competed alternate years.
	www.theatredatabase.com /ancient/aeschylus_001.html (658 words)

	Aeschylus (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aeschylus was an Athenian playwright of the 5th century BC, best known for the Oresteia trilogy.
		Aeschylus was also a King of Athens from 778-755 BC.
		Aeschylus Alexandrinus, Tragicus of the 3rd century BC.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aeschylus_(disambiguation) (123 words)

	Aeschylus Bio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Aeschylus' place of birth was Eleusis, the famous center for the cult of Demeter in Greece; the "mysteries" of Eleusis were rituals designed either to prepare the soul for the afterlife or for eventual reincarnation.
		Aeschylus was thirty-five years old at the battle of Marathon, one of the two pivotal events in the Greek struggle against the invading Persians.
		Aeschylus was an adolescent when the Athenians overthrew the tyrant Pisistratid family and established the first democracy, and the fear of tyranny is palpable in his drama Agamemnon.
	lilt.ilstu.edu /drjclassics/ih/IH51/Greeks/Aeschylus/AeschylusBio.htm (690 words)

	MSN Encarta - Aeschylus
		Aeschylus fought successfully against the Persians at Marathon in 490 bc, at Salamís in 480 bc, and possibly at Plataea the following year.
		In The Eumenides, the Erinyes pursue Orestes until he is cleansed of his blood guilt and set free by the ancient court of the Areopagus through the intercession of Athena, goddess of wisdom.
		By introducing the innovation of a second actor, Aeschylus created the possibility of dramatic dialogue in which the action of a play is advanced.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761555605/Aeschylus.html (557 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Aeschylus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Aeschylus was born around 525 B.C.E at Eleusis, a town west of Athens and famous home of the cult of Demeter, a mystery cult which, through various rituals, prepared Greek souls for their transition into the afterlife.
		Aeschylus is known to have fought with his brother for Greece against Persian invaders at Marathon in 490.
		Aeschylus is thought to have written his first plays around the year 500, for the legendary dramatic competition, the Great Dionysa, at the Festival of Dionysus in Athens, where they were performed.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/authors/about_aeschylus.html (743 words)

	Aeschylus Index
		Aeschylus Monologues - An index of monologues by the Greek dramatist.
		Aeschylus: Poems - An index of poems by the Greek dramatist.
		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.
	www.theatrehistory.com /ancient/aeschylus.html (283 words)

	Aeschylus. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The first of the three great Greek writers of tragedy, Aeschylus was the predecessor of Sophocles and Euripides.
		Vivid in its character portrayal, majestic in its tone, and captivating in its lyricism, Aeschylus’ tragic poetry is esteemed among the greatest of all time.
		The last three tragedies of Aeschylus compose the only extant ancient trilogy, called the Oresteia, a history of the House of Atreus, with which the poet won first prize in 458.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ae/Aeschylu.html (535 words)

	Aeschylus - Best of Sicily Magazine
		Aeschylus probably acted in some of his own plays, not an uncommon practice for writers in those days.
		Following Aeschylus' death, a "tyrant" (ruler) of Syracuse revered the dramatist's desk as a sacred object, almost a relic to be venerated.
		Aeschylus died in the Sicilian city of Gela around 455 BC following a career as one of the greatest dramatists of his age or any other.
	www.bestofsicily.com /mag/art88.htm (551 words)

	The Glory that was Greece
		Aeschylus was a soldier in his youth, and took part in the Persian Wars.
		Aeschylus left Athens in 471 BCE to attend court at Syracuse, ruled by the tyrant Hieron, a famous patron of the arts.
		Aeschylus was prosecuted for revealing the mysteries of Eleusis in one of his plays.
	www.watson.org /~leigh/drama.html (2916 words)

	Aeschylus - Crystalinks
		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).
		Aeschylus is known to have written about 90 plays, only 7 of which remain extant:
		Attributed to Aeschylus in antiquity, it is generally considered by modern scholars to be the work of an unknown 4th century BC playwright, quite possibly Ion, Aeschylus' son.
	www.crystalinks.com /aeschylus.html (492 words)

	Persians Introduction, Univ. of Saskatchewan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Aeschylus attaches a paradigmatic significance to the defeat of Xerxes, using that defeat as the basis for a probing examination of empire and human ambition — one that well might have ominous overtones for the Athens of his time, with its own increasingly imperialistic ambitions abroad.
		Many feel that Aeschylus' selection of the Persian Wars (and, more specifically, the battle of Salamis) as the subject for one of his plays in 472 was no accident.
		Aeschylus' picture of the downfall of the ruthless and hybristic tyrant Xerxes has been felt by some to bear an ominous relevance to Athenian foreign policy in the late 470s.
	duke.usask.ca /~porterj/CourseNotes/PersIntro.html (958 words)

	MSN Encarta - Aeschylus
		During his final visit he died at Gela, where a monument was later erected in his memory.
		Aeschylus is said to have written about 90 plays.
		His tragedies, first performed about 500 bc, were presented as trilogies, or groups of three, usually bound together by a common theme.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761555605 (557 words)

	Aeschylus
		Aeschylus was a Marathon-warrior, the title given to each of the little band who had beaten back the earlier tremendous Persian onslaught.
		Aeschylus was the poet of a new era.
		Aeschylus was profoundly religious and a radical, and so he pushed aside the outside trappings of religion to search into the thing itself.
	www.english.emory.edu /DRAMA/Aesch.html (2195 words)

	Enjoying "The Seven Against Thebes", by Aeschylus
		Aeschylus is supposed to have originated the idea of having a second character onstage (Eteocles and the scout, Antigone and Ismene), talking with each other.
		Aeschylus frames evil in terms of "the gods" and "the curse of Oedipus." Many of the Greeks must not have really believed in "the gods", and "the curse of Oedipus" happened to somebody else.
		Aeschylus presents the earth as the great mother of all, the source of all good things, what we are fighting for, and so forth.
	www.pathguy.com /7thebes.htm (3108 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Aeschylus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It is in this context that Aeschylus followed Phrynichus as the most successful playwright in Athens, dominating the stage after the older man's death c.473 BC.
		According to Aristotle's Poetics, Aeschylus introduced a second actor, which allowed the development of dialogue and a progressive lessening of the role of the chorus.
		By 458 BC and the performance of Aeschylus' Oresteia Trilogy (a modern title comprising the trilogy of the Agamemnon, the Libation-Bearers and the Eumenides), the use of a second actor was more developed, as were the physical resources such as the raised stage and moving backdrops.
	www.literaryencyclopedia.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=40 (691 words)

	Drama: Aeschylus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Aeschylus is often credited with a rough and powerful style expressed in a language that sometimes forced him to make up new words.
		The power of his language is always remarked on by those who know his Greek original, and his translators have often been poets in their own right.
		Aeschylus died at age sixty-eight in Gela, Sicily, where he spent time at the request of a friendly tyrant, Hieron.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/drama/aeschylus.htm (541 words)

	The Classics Pages - Aeschylus' Agamemnon 2
		But Aeschylus' Artemis "hates the eagles' feast" not because she's a touchy teeenager, but because - as a goddess - she is outside time, and can see past, present and future simultaneously.
		Aeschylus' Zeus - unlike any god before (or since?) - is in the business of change and evolution, the objective being no less than the full devolution of power and responsibilty to men themselves.
		Aeschylus denies Aegisthus, the "cowardly lion", any part in the murder, which is planned and executed by Clytemnestra.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~loxias/agamemnon2.htm (1103 words)

	Aeschylus Quotes
		Aeschylus and His Tragedies - a biography and analysis of his poetic qualities.
		Aeschylus Monologues - a collection of monologues from his plays.
		Aeschylus Poems - a collection of his poetic verse.
	www.notable-quotes.com /a/aeschylus_quotes.html (179 words)

	Aeschylus articles on Encyclopedia.com
		Aeschylus AESCHYLUS [Aeschylus], 525-456 BC, Athenian tragic dramatist, b.
		Sophocles SOPHOCLES [Sophocles], c.496 BC-406 BC, Greek tragic dramatist, younger contemporary of Aeschylus and older contemporary of Euripides, b.
		A man of wealth, charm, and genius, Sophocles was given posts of responsibility in peace and in war by the Athenians.
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=Aeschylus (438 words)

	Aeschylus: Four Plays (1961)
		This is a common theme in Aeschylus: initial violence causes the previously blameless and innocent to respond by transgressing in violence themselves until there is no one left who can hope to claim any freedom of guilt.
		The king is reminded of the curse and is duly warned, but he proceeds to his own doom and destruction, fully convinced that there is no escaping this fate.
		Aeschylus, being Athenian, only barely mentions the Battle of Platea (won mostly by the Spartans) that sealed the fate of that invasion.
	www.gotterdammerung.org /books/reviews/a/aeschylus-four-plays.html (1201 words)

	AESCHYLUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Aeschylus was the earliest of the great Greek tragedians and the principal creator of Greek drama.
		Before Aeschylus, tragedies had a single actor, who could only respond to suggestions of the chorus.
		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.
	www.hyperhistory.com /online_n2/people_n2/persons1_n2/aeschylus.html (145 words)

	Aeschylus - Penguin Group (USA) Authors - Penguin Group (USA)
		Aeschylus was born of a noble family near Athens in 525 BC.
		Aeschylus wrote more than seventy plays, of which seven have survived: The Suppliants, The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, Prometheus Bound, Agamemnon, The Choephori, and The Eumenides.
		Aeschylus was recognized as a classic writer soon after his death, and special privileges were decreed for his plays.
	us.penguingroup.com /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000000162,00.html (141 words)

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