Aeschylus
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Aeschylus was an ancient Greek playwright. He is often recognized as the father of tragedy and is the earliest of the three Greek tragedians whose plays survive, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.
Books
Six Major Tragedies (Agamemnon / Doctor Faustus / Emperor Jones / Hedda Gabler /King Lear / Oedipus the King)
Contains: Agamemnon by Aeschylus Oedipus the King by Sophocles Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe King Lear by William Shakespeare Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen The Emperor Jones by Eugene O'Neil
Nine great plays, from Aeschylus to Eliot -- revised edition
Greek tragedy
Contains the three Greek tragedies Aeschylus's "Agamemnon," Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex," and Euripides' "Medea," with extracts from "Frogs" by Aristophanes and selections from Aristotle's "Poetics," and includes a chronology and detailed notes on each work.
Werke
Aeschyli fabulae, cum lectionibus et scholiis codicis Medicei et in Agamemnonem codicis Florentini ab Hieronymo Vitelli denuo collatis, edidit N. Wecklein
Seven against Thebes
The third play in an Oedipus-themed trilogy produced by Aeschylus in 467 BC. The trilogy is sometimes referred to as the Oedipodea. It concerns the battle between an Argive army led by Polynices and the army of Thebes led by Eteocles and his supporters.
Eumenides
Eumenides is the third play in Aeschylus's Oresteia trilogy, consisting of Agamemnon, Orestes, and the Eumenides. The play deals with the resolution of Orestes's guilt in the murder of his mother, Clytemnestra, whom he was compelled to kill in order to avenge the murder of his father, Agamemnon. Orestes is pursued by the Erinyes until his guilt can be expiated.
Choephori
An unfortunate result of the eagerness of modern commentators to lay stress on Aeschylus as a thinker and religious poet has been the frequent neglect to observe The Libation Bearers, like Agamemnon, is full of suspense, action, and skillfully contrived surprise.