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Aeschylus

b. 525 — d. 456 (aged -69)

Writer

Aeschylus was an ancient Greek tragedian. He is also the first whose plays still survive; the others are Sophocles and Euripides. He is often described as the father of tragedy: critics and scholars' knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier tragedies is largely based on inferences from his surviving plays, According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of characters in plays to allow conflict among them whereas characters previously had interacted only with the chorus.

Known For

Wedding in Blood

Wedding in Blood

Trails

Filmography

Prometheus Bound

Prometheus Bound

Laboratory of Dilemmas

Agamemnon: The Homecoming

Le rêve plus fort que la mort

Prometheus Retrogressing

Prometheus Retrogressing

Función de noche

Vom Ende der Helden - Drei Stücke gegen den Krieg

All the World's a Stage

To theatro tis Tetartis

Oresteia

Trails

Great Performances: Dance in America

Great Performances: Dance in America

Prometheus in Second Person

Prometheus in Second Person

Wedding in Blood

Wedding in Blood

Fragments of an Alms-Film

Fragments of an Alms-Film

Oresteia: Agamemnon

To theatro tis Defteras

To theatro tis Defteras

Gunman of Ave Maria

Gunman of Ave Maria

Die griechische Tragödie - Wesen und Wirkung

The Illiac Passion

The Illiac Passion

Teatro de siempre

Les perses

Hercules Unchained

Hercules Unchained

The Family Reunion

Omnibus

Promithefs desmotis

Prometheus Bound

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