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

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 .

Derived Forms

• Aeschylean, adjective

Other Words From

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

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.

From Time

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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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