The Seven Against Thebes
Aeschylus
- 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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