Aeschylus
c. 525 – c. 456 B.C.E.
Aeschylus was one of the three most famous tragedians in Classical Athens; the other two were Sophokles and Euripides. He wrote 90 plays, of which only seven survive under his name; and of these, Prometheus Bound may not really have been written by him. Like other Athenian tragedians, Aeschylus wrote mainly for competition at the annual Athenian drama festival known as the City Dionysia, where three playwrights would each present three tragedies and a satyr play.
David Sacks, Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World, rev. ed., rev. Lisa R. Brody (New York: Facts On File, 2005), 9.
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