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The death of Aeschylus illustrated in the 15th century Florentine Picture Chronicle by Maso Finiguerra [25] In 458 BC, Aeschylus returned to Sicily for the last time, visiting the city of Gela, where he died in 456 or 455 BC.
Aeschylus was not the first to write a play about the Persians — his older contemporary Phrynichus wrote two plays about them. The first, The Sack of Miletus (written in 493 BC, 21 years before Aeschylus' play), concerned the destruction of an Ionian colony of Athens in Asia Minor by the Persians.
Hieron's reign was marked by the creation of what is believed to be the first secret police in Greek history, yet he was a liberal patron of literature and culture. The poets Simonides, Pindar, Bacchylides, Aeschylus, and Epicharmus were active at his court, as well the philosopher Xenophanes. He was an active participant in pan-hellenic ...
After the death of his brother Hiero I, ... Aeschylus writes Seven Against Thebes and wins the Dionysia. Aeschylus' play, The Persians is produced in Sicily. 466 BC
According to Diogenes Laertius, the Pre-Socratic philosopher from Sicily, who, in one of his surviving poems, declared himself to have become a "divine being... no longer mortal", [24] tried to prove he was an immortal god by leaping into Mount Etna, an active volcano. [25] [26] The Roman poet Horace also alludes to this legend. [27] Sogdianus ...
The cause of death for chef Recaldo Thomas, the first person found dead after the Bayesian yacht sank off the coast of Sicily last month, has been determined, PEOPLE confirms.. Thomas died of ...
The huge luxury sailing yacht Bayesian sank during a violent storm off Sicily, leaving six people missing, including two Americans. 2 Americans, U.K. tech mogul among 6 missing after yacht sinks ...
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