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| 525–456 B.C., Athenian tragic dramatist, b. Eleusis. The first of the three great Greek writers of tragedy, Aeschylus was the predecessor of Sophocles and Euripides.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.) |
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Pronunciation:   s´k -ls,  ´sk- from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- WORKS
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- The House of Atreus
The Oresteian trilogy represents the height of Greek drama:
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- Agamemnon
From the Harvard Classics, Vol. VIII, Part 1.
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- The Libation-Bearers
From the Harvard Classics, Vol. VIII, Part 2.
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- The Furies
From the Harvard Classics, Vol. VIII, Part 3.
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- Prometheus Bound
The emergence of the individual against his angry God. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. VIII, Part 4.
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- Bartlett’s Aeschylus Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.
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- Aeschylus, 3024 to 3145
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
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