Aeschylus

Aeschylus (c. 525-456 BCE) was born into an aristocratic family in Eleusis, near Athens, and is considered the father of Greek tragedy. He fought in the Battle of Marathon in 490 BCE and possibly at Salamis in 480 BCE, experiences that profoundly shaped his vision of civic duty and heroism. He expanded the dramatic form by introducing a second actor, enabling true dialogue on stage, and wrote between seventy and ninety plays, of which only seven survive complete. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Oresteia.