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Aeschylus was an ancient Greek tragedian, often described as the father of tragedy. Academic knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier Greek tragedy is largely based on inferences made from reading his surviving plays. According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of characters in the theatre and allowed conflict among them. Formerly, characters interacted only wit…
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culture · 5th-century BC Athenian Greek tragedian · tragedy writer · warrior · playwright · writer · also Aeschylus, Aeschylos, Æschylus
Born 525 BC · Died 456 BC · Q40939
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“Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”
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