Aeschylus wrote a now lost satyr play called Amymore about the seduction of Amymore by Poseidon, which followed the trilogy that included The Suppliants.

Aeschylus wrote a satyr play about the abduction called Orithyia which has been lost.

Aeschylus wrote a play called the Cabeiri, and the fragments that survive have them as a chorus greeting the Argonauts at Lemnos.

476-68 BCE ) expands on the example of Ixion, applicable to Hiero I of Syracuse, the tyrant of whom the poet sings ; and Aeschylus, Euripides and Timasitheos each wrote a tragedy of Ixion: none have survived.

He also wrote a work on the metres of the Greek dramatic poets, and compiled special lexicons to Aeschylus and Sophocles.

It is generally agreed that the word was coined in ancient Greece by the playwright, Aeschylus, or whoever else wrote Prometheus Bound.

Milman also wrote " When our-heads are bowed with woe ," and other hymns ; an admirable version of the Sanskrit episode of Nala and Damayanti ; and translations of the Agamemnon of Aeschylus and the Bacchae of Euripides.

* Philocles: A nephew of the great tragedian, Aeschylus, he wrote a play about Tereus that was a feeble descendant of the Tereus written by Sophocles and he is nicknamed ' Lark ' ( lines 281, 1295 ).

The philosopher Menedemus thought his plays second only to Aeschylus, he was part of the Alexandrian canon, and Didymus wrote a commentary on him.

The ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus fought in the battle ; he wrote the play The Persians in which the Battle of Salamis is a setting.

Following the success of his first play Afore Night Come ( 1962 ), Rudkin translated works by Aeschylus, Roger Vitrac, the libretto of Schoenberg's Moses and Aaron, and wrote the book to the Western Theatre Ballet's Sun into Darkness ( Sadlers Wells 1963 ) and the libretto for Gordon Crosse's comic opera, The Grace of Todd.

Finally, Athenaeus ( a grammarian of the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD ), wrote of a contemporary Athenian festival dedicated to Prometheus: " Aeschylus clearly states in the Unbound that in honor of Prometheus we place a garland on the head as recompense of his bondage.

Finally, Athenaeus ( a grammarian of the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD ) wrote in Book 15. 16 of his Deipnosophists the following regarding a contemporary Athenian festival dedicated to Prometheus: " Aeschylus clearly states in the Unbound that in honor of Prometheus we place a garland on the head as recompense of his bondage.

From 1997 till 2007, Walker served as Artistic Director of Theatre Kingston, a company for which he has directed many productions including his own Finnegans Wake: a dream play ( based on the novel by James Joyce ), which played in both Kingston and Toronto in 2001, and Aeschylus ’ s The Oresteia, which was performed with Proteus, a satyr play Walker wrote himself to replace the one that had originally followed the trilogy but had been lost since the 5th century BCE.

Philoctetes (, Philoktētēs ; English pronunciation:, stressed on the third syllable ,-tet -) is a play by Sophocles ( Aeschylus and Euripides also each wrote a Philoctetes but theirs have not survived ).

There are several reasons throughout myth for such wrath: in Aeschylus ' play Agamemnon, Artemis is angry for the young men who will die at Troy, whereas in Sophocles ' Electra, Agamemnon has slain an animal sacred to Artemis, and subsequently boasted that he was Artemis ' equal in hunting.

Heracleides of Pontus asserts that the crowd watching the play tried to stone Aeschylus.

The opera Les Danaïdes ( The Danaids ) is a five-act tragédie lyrique ; the plot was based on an ancient Greek legend that had been the basis for the first play in a trilogy by Aeschylus, entitled The Suppliants.

Thomas appeared in the play Comus for Third Programme, the day after the network launched, and his rich, sonorous voice led to character parts, including the lead in Aeschylus ' Agamemnon and Satan in an adaptation of Paradise Lost.

The institution of trial by jury was ritually depicted by Aeschylus in the Eumenides, the third and final play of his Oresteia trilogy.

It is apparently not until Prometheus reveals this secret of Zeus's potential downfall that the two reconcile in the final play, Prometheus the Fire-Bringer or Prometheus Pyrphoros, a lost tragedy by Aeschylus.

In Prometheus Unbound ( 1820 ), a four-act lyrical drama, Percy Bysshe Shelley rewrites the lost play of Aeschylus so that Prometheus does not submit to Zeus ( under the Latin name Jupiter ), but instead supplants him in a triumph of the human heart and intellect over tyrannical religion.

Their grandson, Danaos, eventually returned to Greece with his fifty daughters ( the Danaids ), as recalled in Aeschylus ' play The Suppliants.

A prime example of the use of the ekkyklêma is after the murder of Agamemnon in the first play of Aeschylus ' Oresteia, when the king's butchered body is wheeled out in a grand display for all to see.

The city forms the setting of The Persians ( 472 BCE ), an Athenian tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus that is the oldest surviving play in the history of theatre.

The play expands on the Theban legend that predated it and picks up where Aeschylus ' Seven Against Thebes ends.

The chorus in Antigone departs significantly from the chorus in Aeschylus ' Seven Against Thebes, the play of which Antigone is a continuation.

A chorus of Aeschylus almost always continues or intensifies the moral nature of the play, while one of Euripides frequently strays far from the main moral theme.

The play takes its theme from The Libation Bearers by Aeschylus.

Pausanias ( 2. 15. 3 ) mentions his daughter Nemea, eponym for the region of the same name ( possibly the mother of Archemorus in Aeschylus ' lost play Nemea ).

* Aeschylus ' play, The Persians is produced in Sicily.

A now lost play about Phineus, Phineus, was written by Aeschylus and was the first play in the trilogy that included The Persians, produced in 472 B. C.

The story of Polyeidos and Glaucus was the subject of a lost play of Euripides, his Bellerophon, and of one by Aeschylus, and Sophocles ' lost The Mantises.

The Seven against Thebes (, Hepta epi Thēbas ; ) is the third play in an Oedipus-themed trilogy produced by Aeschylus in 467 BC.

* Mourning Becomes Electra, play by Eugene O ' Neill, based on Aeschylus

In The Libation Bearers, the second play of Aeschylus ' trilogy Orestia, Pylades speaks only once.

Tired of the bloodshed, the gods exonerated Orestes and declared this the end of the curse on the house of Atreus, as described in Aeschylus ' play The Eumenides.

The difference between Euripides and his older colleagues was one of degree: his characters talked about the present more controversially and more pointedly than did those of Aeschylus and Sophocles, sometimes even challenging the democratic order.

The poem is not about World War I, but it does try to address the relationships between destruction and beauty, and, in this sense, it resonates with ancient Greek meditations on these matters, especially in the plays of Sophocles and Aeschylus.

* Aeschylus: A renowned tragic poet, he is named by Pisthetaerus as the author of a verse about heroes being shot with their own arrows / feathers ( line 808 ) – the verse was borrowed from the now lost play Myrmidons.

By Aeschylus are known titles of 79 works ( out of about ninety works ), between tragedy and satyr plays, 7 of these have survived, including the only complete trilogy has come down from antiquity, the ' Oresteia, and some papyrus fragments:

In addition to writing about Islam and National Socialism, Myatt has translated works by Sophocles, Sappho, Aeschylus, and Homer and has written several collections of poems

In 1893 Brennan's article " On the Manuscripts of Aeschylus " appeared in the Journal of Philology, Brennan began forming a theory about the descent of Aeschylus ' extant manuscripts in 1888.

The only example is the Suffering of Christ ( Christus Patiens, Χριστος πασχον ), written in the eleventh or 12th century ; of its 2, 640 verses, about one-third are borrowed from ancient dramas, chiefly from those of Euripides, and Mary, the chief character, sometimes recites verses from the " Medea " of Euripides, again from the " Electra " of Sophocles, or the " Prometheus " of Aeschylus.