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Pages in category "Plays by Aeschylus" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Achilleis (trilogy)
Aeschylus appears as a character in the play and claims, at line 1022, that his Seven against Thebes "made everyone watching it to love being warlike". [51] He claims, at lines 1026–7, that with The Persians he "taught the Athenians to desire always to defeat their enemies."
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).
Aeschylus (c. 525–456 BC): The Persians (472 BC) Seven Against Thebes (467 BC) The Suppliants (463 BC) The Oresteia (458 BC, a trilogy comprising Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides.) Prometheus Bound (authorship and date of performance is still in dispute) Phrynichus (~511 BC): The Fall of Miletus (c. 511 BC) Phoenissae (c. 476 ...
These include the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the Roman adaptations of Plautus, Terence and Seneca. In total, there are eighty-three mostly extant plays, forty-six from ancient Greece and thirty-seven from ancient Rome. Furthermore, there are six lost plays with extensive ...
Pages in category "Plays based on works by Aeschylus" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. E.
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 two sons, Eteocles and Polynices, in order to avoid bloodshed, agreed to rule Thebes in alternate years. After the first year, Eteocles refused to step down, leading Polynices to raise an army of Argives (captained by the eponymous Seven) to take Thebes by force. This is where Aeschylus' tragedy starts.