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Name: AESCHYLUS
Birth: 525 B.C.
Profession: Playwright
Birth Place: Eleusis, Greece
Known as: Author of the Orestia
Death: 455 B.C.
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Summary:
Aeschylus is often called the father of Greek tragedy; he wrote the earliest complete plays which survive from ancient Greece. Aeschylus was known for his dramatic plots and grand style, and was the first playwright to add a second actor to the stage. (To that point most tragedies featured only a single actor and a chorus.) He is known to have written more than 90 plays, though only seven survive. The most famous of these are the trilogy known as Orestia, which includes Agamemnon, Choephori, and Eumenides. Also well-known are The Persians and Prometheus Bound.
Extra credit: Aeschylus is pronounced ES kih lus... According to legend, Aeschylus was killed when an eagle, mistaking the playwright's bald head for a rock, dropped a tortoise onto it... As a young man Aeschylus fought at the famous battle of Marathon.
Other prominent playwrights include William Shakespeare, Anton Chekhov, George Bernard Shaw and Vaclav Havel.
Aeschylus joins King Tut and Cyrano de Bergerac in the loop Bopped on the Head.
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