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SECTION 2: Exemplary GREEK Catastrophe AND THEATRE
Chapter 7: Prototypical Greek Catastrophe, Part 1
I. Introduction: Picture Data, enhance the Depressive Lack Thereof
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Aeschylus
5th century BC Athenian Greek tragedian
This article is about the ancient Greek playwright. For other uses, see Aeschylus (disambiguation).
Aeschylus | |
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Roman marble herma of Aeschylus dating to c. 30 BC, based on an earlier bronze Greek herma, dating to around 340-320 BC | |
| Born | c. 525/524 BC Eleusis |
| Died | c. 456 BC (aged approximately 67) Gela, Sicily |
| Occupation(s) | Playwright and soldier |
| Children | |
| Parent | Euphorion (father) |
| Relatives | |
Aeschylus (,[1];[2]Ancient Greek: ΑἰσχύλοςAischýlos; c. 525/524 – c. 456/455 BC) was an ancient Greektragedian often described as the father of tragedy.[3][4] Academic knowledge of the genre begins with his work,[5] and understanding of earlier Greek tragedy is largely based on inferences made from reading his surviving plays.[6] According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of characters in the theatre and allowed conflict among them. Formerly, characters interacted only with the chorus.[nb 1]
Only seven of Aeschylus's estimated 70 to 90 plays have survived in complete form. There is a long-standing debate regarding the authorship of one of them, Prometheus Bound, with some scholars arguing that
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Ancient Greek Playwrights
EURIPIDES
Euripides was the youngest of the three great tragedians. Born in the 480s b.c.e., Euripides first competed in the Great Dionysia in 455. He competed twenty-one more times, but won only four times, including with the tetralogy that included Bacchae andIphigeneia at Aulis, produced after his death in 406.
Most of what has come down to us as Euripides’ biography is pieced together from jokes made about him in comedies, and thus is not particularly reliable. He seems not to have taken part in public life; he may have had a bad marriage; and one of his sons (or a nephew) was a tragic poet, too. There is also some evidence that he may have been an intellectual recluse, and he perhaps had a large library.
The ancients criticized his plays for being too pedestrian and too easily resolved. Euripides also had a reputation for literary misogyny, but modern audiences might wonder at such a charge leveled against the creator of the heroines of Alcestis, Medea, Iphigeneia at Aulis, and Hecuba.
We are fortunate still to have nineteen plays by Euripides.
ARISTOPHANES
Aristophanes, the most famous writer of Greek comedies, was born in the 440s b.c.e. He lived through the upheaval of the Peloponnesian War, which lasted from 431 to 404, a