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Æschylos Tragedies and Fragments

English translation · Translated by E. H. Plumptre

by Aeschylus

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Seven plays survive out of the seventy or eighty credited to Æschylos, and Dean Plumptre of Wells translated all of them, along with the fragments of the lost ones. This 1901 Boston edition prints them in pocket form with his notes, in order of composition: The Persians, The Seven who Fought against Thebes, Prometheus Bound and The Suppliants in the first part, then the Oresteian trilogy of Agamemnon, The Libation-Pourers and Eumenides. The choral odes are in unrhymed metres, with rhymed versions of the chief odes of the trilogy added at the end.

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Aeschylus

Aeschylus fought at Marathon and probably at Salamis, and his epitaph records the battle rather than the plays, which is said to have been his own instruction. He added a second actor to tragedy, which is the point at which drama becomes dialogue instead of a chorus with a soloist. Seven of perhaps ninety plays survive.

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Author
Aeschylus
Reading time
About 8 hours
Pages
403
Language
English
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