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Bust of Aeschylus, Athens (photograph by Tilemachos Efthimiadis, CC BY-SA 2.0)
Bust of Aeschylus, Athens (photograph by Tilemachos Efthimiadis, CC BY-SA 2.0) · Wikimedia Commons

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Aeschylus

c. 525–456 BC · Tragedian

He fought the Persians at Marathon, and his epitaph remembers that, not his plays. Seven of his tragedies survive, among them the Oresteia, the only complete trilogy we have.

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All seven surviving plays, the Oresteia among them, in Greek beside English.

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