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What does Aeschylus mean?

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Proper noun
  1. A Greek dramatic poet (525 BCE—456 BCE); Aeschylus was the earliest of the three greatest Greek tragedians.
  2. (historical) A male given name.
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The idea is not of much help in reading Aeschylus and of intermittent usefulness in Euripides.
Seneca produced his own versions of tragedies by Sophocles, Euripides, and Aeschylus.
The staggering fact is that for centuries the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides went virtually unperformed on the British stage.
The old view, espoused by Aeschylus and Shakespeare and many in between, was that good drama must involve royalty or nobility.
As Aeschylus and other tragedians appreciated, words could be used to make what is false appear true and what was true false.
On the whole, Lefkowitz steers by more familiar landmarks, including the great classical dramatists like Aeschylus and Sophocles among her poets.

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