Æschylos Tragedies and Fragments

by Aeschylus

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The title page presents tragedies and fragments with notes and rhymed choral odes arranged in two parts. The introductory note presents seven surviving plays in chronological order, out of a total credited as seventy or eighty. A king says that fierce war must be risked against one side or the other, and that no escape from the situation is possible without trouble.

A speech describes the guilt of kindred blood as requiring a great atonement, with many victims falling to many gods. A speech to citizens counsels respect for a form of state that is neither lawless nor tyrannical, and warns against casting all fear out of the city.

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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.