Aeschylus

Aeschylus (c. 525 BC – 456 BC) was a renowned ancient Greek poet, dramatist, and tragedian. His surviving works include The Persians, about the Persian Wars, and The Oresteia, a trilogy recounting the death of Agamemnon and his son Orestes' revenge.

## Works[edit]

The author Aeschylus composed seven major works that have survived until this day. They include the following;[1]

* Prometheus Bound \- 430 BC
* The Choephori \- 450 BC
* Eumenides \- 458 BC
* The Suppliants \- 463 BC
* The Seven Against Thebes \- 467 BC
* The Persians \- 474 BC

## See also[edit]

* Sophocles
* Euripides

## References[edit]

1. ↑ Internet Classics Archives, Aeschylus

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Literature

American Authors|

Herman Melville • Mark Twain • Edgar Allen Poe • F. Scott Fitzgerald • Washington Irving • Emily Dickinson • Willa Cather • Langston Hughes • Ernest Hemingway • William Faulkner • Harper Lee • Joseph Heller • Allen Drury

British Authors|

Geoffrey Chaucer • William Shakespeare • Christopher Marlowe • John Dryden • John Milton • Charles Dickens • Jane Austen • Arthur Conan Doyle • Agatha Christie

World Authors|

Solomon • Homer • Aesop • Aeschylus • Euripides • Virgil • Confucius • Dante • Niccolò Machiavelli • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra • Leo Tolstoy • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Victor Hugo

Great Works|

Epic of Gilgamesh • The Odyssey • Medea • Mahabharata • Aeneid • Analects • Arabian Nights • Divine Comedy • Romance of the Three Kingdoms • Romeo and Juliet • Paradise Lost • Faust • Les Miserables • A Tale of Two Cities • The Old Man and the Sea