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Aeschylus (?525-455 B.C.) The originator of Greek tragedy. The first of the three great Athenian tragic poets with Sophocles and Euripides. Only seven of his tragedies have been preserved: "Prometheus Bound;" "The Seven Against Thebes; "The Persian;" "Agamemnon;" "The Choephori;" "Eumenides," and "The Suppliants.
J. N. Larned, Larned's History of the World, Vol. I (New York: World Syndicate, 1915) 189. (From Bust in Capitol, Rome)
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