Aeschylus Definition

ĕskə-ləs, ēskə-
proper name
525?-456 b.c.; Gr. writer of tragedies.
Webster's New World
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pronoun

A Greek dramatic poet (525 BC - 456 BC); Aeschylus was the earliest of the three greatest Greek tragedians.

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(historical) A male given name.
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Greek tragic dramatist whose plays were the first to include two actors in addition to the chorus. Only 7 of his 90 dramas survive, including the Oresteia trilogy (458).
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Origin of Aeschylus

  • From Ancient Greek Αἰσχύλος (Aischulos).

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Aeschylus Sentence Examples

  • The further treatment of the tale by Aeschylus is unknown.

  • Aeschylus wrote a satyric drama on the subject.

  • Whilst under the first of these tutors, in nine months he read all Thucydides, Sophocles and Sallust, twelve books of Tacitus, the greater part of Horace, Juvenal, Persius, and several plays of Aeschylus and Euripides.

  • So the Persian kings fixed their residence at Susa, which is always considered as the capital of the empire (therefore Aeschylus wrongly considers it as a Persian town and places the tomb of Darius here).

  • It was there that they placed the scene of the sufferings of Prometheus (vide Aeschylus, Prometheus Vinctus), and there, in the land of Colchis, which corresponds to the valley of the Rion, that they sent the Argonauts to fetch the golden fleece.

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