Seven Against Thebes
Athens · -467
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Aeschylus
Aeschylus
525 BCE–456 BCE · Athens
The earliest of the three great Athenian tragedians, called the father of tragedy for expanding the number of actors and the dramatic possibilities of the stage; author of the Oresteia.
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Stop 1 of 1525 BCE–456 BCELived
AthensAttica (Greece)
What they did here
Athenian tragedian; competed at the City Dionysia.
About Athens
The intellectual capital of the Greek world, where Socrates questioned in the agora and four great schools—Plato's Academy, Aristotle's Lyceum, the Stoa, and Epicurus' Garden—took root within a single square mile.
In Athens at the same time
Themistocles, Anaxagoras, Sophocles, Euripides, Antiphon, Socrates
Works(7)
Libation Bearers
Athens · -458
Agamemnon
Athens · -458
Supplices
Athens · -463
Prometheus Bound
Athens · -456
Persians
Athens · -472
Eumenides
Athens · -458