Aeschylus

Aeschylus was born in Eleusis around 525 BC, into a noble family, and fought at Marathon in 490, then at Salamis in 480. According to Aristotle, he raised the number of actors to two. He won his first victory in the tragic competition in 484, thirteen in all, and wrote between seventy and ninety tragedies and satyr plays, of which seven plays have come down to us. He stayed in Sicily with the tyrant Hieron and died in Gela in 456.

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