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Aeschylus

[ es-kuh-luhsor, especially British, ee-skuh- ]

noun

  1. 525–456 b.c., Greek poet and dramatist.


Aeschylus

/ ˈiːskələs; ˌiːskəˈliːən /

noun

  1. Aeschylus?525 bc?456 bcMGreekTHEATRE: dramatist ?525–?456 bc , Greek dramatist, regarded as the father of Greek tragedy. Seven of his plays are extant, including Seven Against Thebes , The Persians , Prometheus Bound , and the trilogy of the Oresteia
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Aeschylus

  1. An ancient Greek poet, often considered the founder of tragedy . He was the first of the three great Greek authors of tragedies, preceding Sophocles and Euripides .


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Derived Forms

  • Aeschylean, adjective
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Other Words From

  • Aes·chy·le·an [es-k, uh, -, lee, -, uh, n, ee-sk, uh, -], adjective
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Example Sentences

Those fifth-century BCE dramatists of Athens—Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides—used mythical material, often radical expansions of moments or scenes in Homer’s epics, to address the politics of their own time.

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Aeschylus wrote some 90 plays and Sophocles about 120; seven from each of them have survived.

The earliest of the passages now in question comes from the poet Pratinas, a contemporary of Aeschylus.

Perhaps the gods and demons of Aeschylus may best bear a comparison with the angels and devils of Milton.

What the Greeks only suspected we know well; what their Aeschylus imagined our nursery children feel.

But certainly more sense and less syntax (good or bad) in translations of Aeschylus might be a relief.

For this liberty I have the example of Aeschylus, the creator of tragedy, and Sophocles, the greatest master of his art.

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