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Philoctetes (Aeschylus play) Phrygians (play) Prometheia; Prometheus Bound; Prometheus Pyrkaeus; Prometheus the Fire-Bringer; Prometheus the Fire-kindler; Prometheus Unbound (Aeschylus) Proteus (Aeschylus) Proteus (play)
Aeschylus also fought at the Battle of Plataea in 479 BC. [18] Ion of Chios was a witness for Aeschylus' war record and his contribution in Salamis. [17] Salamis holds a prominent place in The Persians, his oldest surviving play, which was performed in 472 BC and won first prize at the Dionysia. [19]
Seven Against Thebes (Ancient Greek: Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας, Hepta epi Thēbas; Latin: Septem contra Thebas) is the third play in an Oedipus-themed trilogy produced by Aeschylus in 467 BC. The trilogy is sometimes referred to as the Oedipodea . [ 2 ]
The Oresteia (Ancient Greek: Ὀρέστεια) is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BCE, concerning the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra, the murder of Clytemnestra by Orestes, the trial of Orestes, the end of the curse on the House of Atreus and the pacification of the Furies (also called Erinyes or Eumenides).
Philoctetes (Ancient Greek: Φιλοκτήτης) is a play by the Athenian poet Aeschylus. It was probably first produced during the 470s BCE. It is now lost except for a few fragments. Most of what we know of the plot is from the writings of 1st century orator Dio Chrysostom, who compared the Philoctetes plays of Aeschylus, Euripides and ...
However, evidence discovered in the mid-twentieth century shows it was one of Aeschylus' last plays, definitely written after The Persians and possibly after Seven Against Thebes. [5] One reason The Suppliants was thought to be an early play was "its preponderance of choral lyric, . . . a succession of choral odes that are among the densest ...
Phaethon (play) Phèdre; Philoctetes (Aeschylus play) Philoctetes (Sophocles play) The Phoenician Women; Phoenissae (Seneca) Plutus (play) Prometheia; Prometheus Bound; Prometheus the Fire-Bringer; Prometheus Unbound (Aeschylus) Psyché (play)
The Lycurgeia (Ancient Greek: Λυκούργεια, Lykoúrgeia) is a lost tetralogy by the Athenian dramatist Aeschylus that concerned Thracian Lycurgus' conflict with Dionysus and its aftermath. The four plays that made up the Lycurgeia survive only in fragments quoted by ancient authors, and the reconstruction of much of their content is a ...