Aeschylus

Aeschylus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Αἰσχύλος). The son of Euphorion, born in the Attic deme of Eleusis in the year B.C. 525. The period of his youth and early manhood coincides with the great national struggle which both Asiatic and European Hellas were forced to wage against the barbarians in the first twenty years of the fifth century. In this conflict he played the part of a brav...

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Aeschylus in Wikipedia

Aeschylus (pronounced /ˈɛskɨləs/ ESS-kih-ləs; Greek: Αισχύλος, Aiskhulos; c. 524/525 BC – c. 455/456 BC) was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose work has survived, the others being Sophocles and Euripides, and is often recognized as the father of tragedy.[1][2] His name derives from the Greek word aiskhos (αισχος), meaning "shame"...

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