Aeschylus (ca. 525-456 BCE), the dramatist who made Athenian
tragedy one of the world's great art forms, witnessed the
establishment of democracy at Athens and fought against the
Persians at Marathon. He won the tragic prize at the City Dionysia
thirteen times between ca. 499 and 458, and in his later years was
probably victorious almost every time he put on a production,
though Sophocles beat him at least once.
Of his total of about eighty plays, seven survive complete. The
second volume contains the complete Oresteia trilogy, comprising
"Agamemnon," "Libation-Bearers," and "Eumenides," presenting the
murder of Agamemnon by his wife, the revenge taken by their son
Orestes, the pursuit of Orestes by his mother's avenging Furies,
his trial and acquittal at Athens, Athena's pacification of the
Furies, and the blessings they both invoke upon the Athenian
people.
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