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<p> The father of the Greek tragedy, who distinguished himself as a soldier both at [[Marathon]] and [[Salamis]] before he figured as a poet; wrote, it is said, some seventy dramas, of which only seven are extant—the "Suppliants," the "Persæ," the "Seven against Thebes," the "Prometheus Bound," the "Agamemnon," the "Choephori," and the "Eumenides," his plays being trilogies; born at [[Eleusis]] and died in [[Sicily]] (525-456 B.C.). </p>
<p> The father of the Greek tragedy, who distinguished himself as a soldier both at [[Marathon]] and [[Salamis]] before he figured as a poet; wrote, it is said, some seventy dramas, of which only seven are extant—the "Suppliants," the "Persæ," the "Seven against Thebes," the "Prometheus Bound," the "Agamemnon," the "Choephori," and the "Eumenides," his plays being trilogies; born at [[Eleusis]] and died in [[Sicily]] (525-456 B.C.). </p>



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Æs`Chylus [1]

The father of the Greek tragedy, who distinguished himself as a soldier both at Marathon and Salamis before he figured as a poet; wrote, it is said, some seventy dramas, of which only seven are extant—the "Suppliants," the "Persæ," the "Seven against Thebes," the "Prometheus Bound," the "Agamemnon," the "Choephori," and the "Eumenides," his plays being trilogies; born at Eleusis and died in Sicily (525-456 B.C.).

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