Aeschylus

Eschyle est le plus ancien des trois grands tragiques grecs. Treize fois vainqueur du concours tragique, il est l'auteur d'environ 110 pieces dont sept seulement nous ont ete transmises. Le theatre d'Eschyle est essentiellement remarque pour sa force dramatique, la tension, l'angoisse qui habite ses pieces, dont la coherence se comprend surtout par la progression qui les reliait au sein de trilogies " liees ", dont ne subsiste aujourd'hui que l'Orestie. Ces 100 citations visent a donner acces a son A uvre monumentale par une selection de ses pensees les plus marquantes, dans un format accessible a tous. Une citation est plus qu'un extrait d'un propos, ce peut etre un trait d'esprit, un resume d'une pensee complexe, une maxime, une ouverture sur une reflexion plus profonde.

'100 Quotes by Aeschylus' unveils the musings of the originator of tragedy.

With topics such as religion, life, love, and death taken to task, Aeschylus offers the 21st-century reader an insight into the thoughts and feelings of the Ancient Greeks. However, what is surprising is just how resonant many of those ideas are today.

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Thought to have been born in Eleusis, Aeschylus (524BC - 456BC) is the subject of both myth and legend. According to the story, at the age of 26, he was working in a vineyard. During that time, he was visited by the Greek god Dionysus, who pointed him towards the theatrical art of tragedy.

In addition to working as a playwright, he served in the Greek army, particularly in the wars against Persia, which heavily influenced his earliest works. When inducted into a secret cult surrounding the goddess, Demeter, Aeschylus revealed many of the sect"s mysteries in his scripts. As a result, he was accused of religious mockery, although acquitted at his trial.

While he has set the template for tragedians to follow, many of his works have been adapted for film and TV. Perhaps the most notable is 'Oresteia," starring Diana Rigg and Anton Lesser.

The only complete trilogy to survive from ancient Greek theater is presented here in this sound recording of all three plays: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides.In the Oresteia, Aeschylus dramatizes the myth of the curse on the royal house of Argos. Action begins when King Agamemnon returns victorious from the Trojan War but is treacherously slain by his wife. It ends with the trial of their son, Orestes, who slew his mother to avenge her treacherya trial with the goddess Athena as judge, the god Apollo as defense attorney, and avenging demons called The Furies as prosecutors. The results of the trial change the nature of divine and human justice forever.As was the custom in antiquity, this trilogy was accompanied by a satyr play called Proteus, a broad farce on a related theme, namely, the encounter between Agamemnon's brother, Menelaus, with the slippery Old Man of the Sea. This play is lost, but Blackstone has included verses from The Odyssey, which inspired it.