Around 470 BCE, he visited Sicily at the invitation of the Syracusan tyrant Hieron he later returned to Sicily and ultimately died there. He fought against the Persians at Marathon in 490 BCE and at Salamis in 480 BCE. He began producing tragedies in the 490s BCE, winning his first victory at the Dionysia in 484 BCE. Aeschylus was born to an aristocratic family from Eleusis (or thereabouts). Regarded as the “father of tragedy,” Aeschylus introduced important innovations to the genre and was highly esteemed for his dextrous use of symbolism and metaphor, as well as his exploration of justice and the role of the gods in human life.Ī herm, conventionally said to be a bust of Aeschylus (first century CE) Capitoline Museums, Rome Public Domainįrom the many legends surrounding Aeschylus’ life, we can extract a few details that are probably factual. 525/4–456/5 BCE) was the oldest of the three canonical Attic tragedians (the other two being Sophocles and Euripides). Significantly, however, the term “Eumenides” never occurs in the text there is thus some doubt as to whether this was the original title. Eumenídes) comes from a euphemistic name for the Erinyes, or “Furies”-Orestes’ tormentors in the play. The title Eumenides (Greek Εὐμενίδες, translit.
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