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Aeschylus
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was born in Eleusis, a Greek town near Athens, in 525 B.C. He
first of the great Greek tragedians, preceding both Sophocles and Euripides,
credited with inventing tragic drama. Prior to , plays were
primitive, consisting
of a single actor and a chorus offering commentary. In his works, he added ....
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Agamemnon's brother's wife, stolen treacherously by the Trojan Prince, Paris.
(The events
of the Trojan War are recounted in Homer's Iliad.) The play's tragic events
occur as a
result of the crimes committed by Agamemnon's family. His father, Atreus,
murdered and
cooked the children of his own brother, Thyestes, and served them to him;
Clytemnestra's
lover, Aegisthus (Thyestes's only surviving son), seeks revenge for that
crime. Meanwhile,
Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia to ga.... |
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