Aeschylus
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Aeschylus (525 BC—456 BC) was an Ancient Greek writer who wrote about 76 plays. But only 6 of his tragedies have survived complete. Aeschylus was the earliest of the three greatest Ancient Greek writers of tragedies, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.
[edit] Surviving plays
- The Persians (Persai) (472 BC)
- Seven Against Thebes (Hepta epi Thebas) (467 BC)
- The Suppliants (Hiketides) (463 BC?)
- Oresteia (458 BC)
- Agamemnon
- The Libation Bearers (Choephoroi)
- The Eumenides
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