The Seven Against Thebes

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  • Aeschylus
  • was
  • the
  • first
  • of
  • the
  • three
  • ancient
  • Greek
  • tragedians
  • whose
  • plays
  • can
  • still
  • be
  • read
  • or
  • performed,
  • the
  • others
  • being
  • Sophocles
  • and
  • Euripides.
  • He
  • is
  • often
  • described
  • as
  • the
  • father
  • of
  • tragedy:
  • our
  • knowledge
  • of
  • the
  • genre
  • begins
  • with
  • his
  • work
  • and
  • our
  • understanding
  • of
  • earlier
  • tragedies
  • is
  • largely
  • based
  • on
  • inferences
  • from
  • his
  • surviving
  • plays.
  • Only
  • seven
  • of
  • his
  • estimated
  • seventy
  • to
  • ninety
  • plays
  • have
  • survived
  • into
  • modern
  • times.
  • Fragments
  • of
  • some
  • other
  • plays
  • have
  • survived
  • in
  • quotes
  • and
  • more
  • continue
  • to
  • be
  • discovered
  • on
  • Egyptian
  • papyrus,
  • often
  • giving
  • us
  • surprising
  • insights
  • into
  • his work.
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