#Aeschylus tragedies series#

2) narrates that Zeus entrusted the newly-born Dionysus to Hermes, who conveyed him to Ino and Athamas, and persuaded them to rear the babe as a girl. By his divine wife Nephele he had two children, Phrixus and Helle by his second wife Ino, daughter of Cadmus, he had two sons, Learchus and Melicertes. To make Pentheus the name of the trilogy SemelГЄ ^h Hudrophoroi, Bakchai, Xantriai.ДЄthamas, a hero localized in Boeotia and Thessaly, was the son of Aeolus according to the genealogy commonly adopted in antiquity. To make Bakchai the title of the group SemelГЄ ГЄ Hudrophoroi, Pentheus, Xantriai.Д¤. To regard Bakchai as an alternative name for Pentheus, or for Xantriai (not satiric), or even for Bassarai.ДЈ. To seek other connexions for Dionusos trophoi and assume a tetralogy consisting of SemelГЄ ГЄ Hudrophoroi, Bakchai, Pentheus, Xantriai (satiric).Дў. To reduce the number of these Dionysus-plays to the compass of a trilogy or tetralogy, various expedients have been proposed:ДЎ. The Argument to EuripidesвЂ™ Bakchai asserts that the story of that drama had been handled in Pentheus. Theban legends of Dionysus seem to have formed the subject of no less than five plays : SemelГЄ ГЄ Hudrophoroi, Dionusos trophoi (or Trophoi), Bakchai, Xantriai, Pentheus. Murmidones, NГЄreГЇdes, Phruges ГЄ Hektoros lutra.ДЄrgГґ, LГЄmnioi ( LГЄmniai ?), HupsipulГЄ, Kabeiroi (satyric ?).Д®leusinioi, Argeioi ( Argeiai ?), Epigonoi. PromГЄtheus desmoГґtes, PromГЄtheus luomenos, PromГЄtheus purphoros. PsuchagГґgoi, Ostrologoi, PГЄnelopГЄ, KirkГЄ (satyric). Iketides, Aiguptioi, DanaГЇdes, AmumГґnГЄ (satiric). (The order within the group is often uncertain.) Oresteia (458 B.C.): AgamemnГґn, ChoГЄphoroi, Eumenides, PrГґteus.Д«y reason of the myth or of other indication of connexion between their several members, the following groups may be assumed with some probability. Lukourgeia: ГЄdГґnoi, Bassarai, Neaniskoi, Lukourgos.Д¤. (467 B.C.) LaГЇos, Oidipous, Epta epi ThГЄbas, Sphinx.ДЈ. (472 B.C.) Phineus, Persai, Glaukos (Potnieus), PromГЄtheus (purkaeus).Дў. Possibly satiric are: AmumГґnГЄ, Glaukos pontios, KallistГґ, Kabeiroi, Xantriai, Sisuphos drapetГЄs, Phorkides.ДЎ. Satyric plays attested: KerkuГґn, KГЄrukes, KirkГЄ, LeГґn, Lukourgos, PromГЄtheus (purkaeus), PrГґteus, Sphinx. The descriptive epithet added after a title may be due to Alexandrian scholars, who sought thereby to distinguish dramas of the same name. Where such alternative titles occur, that denoting the Chorus is presumably older than that denoting a principal personage or the subject matter of the play.Д¦. Alternative titles are due to Alexandrian scholars whose explanatory designations sought to avoid confusion between dramas of the same name. The two plays of this name are not to be distinguished in the extant fragments.ДҐ. No identified fragment forming an entire verse is extant.Д¤. Not mentioned in the Katalogos tГґn Aischulou dramatГґn.ДЈ. Seventy-three of the under-mentioned titles appear in the list of the dramas that is found in the Medicean manuscript.ДЎ. This page was created in 2005 last modified on 13 March 2019.PAPYRI FRAGMENTS AESCHYLUS FRAGMENTS 1 - 56, TRANSLATED WITH NOTES BY HERBERT WEIR SMYTH THE PLAYS OF AESCHYLUS Aeschylus himself did not care about his fame: he wanted to be remembered not for his tragedies, but for the fact that he had fought at Marathon, where his brother had been killed in action. Of his remaining tragedies, the Seven against Thebes is a very static play, the Suppliants celebrates the legendary past of Athens, whereas the Prometheus asks why an all-powerful god should be good (the authorship is disputed).ДЄeschylus was highly esteemed fifty years after his death, the comic poet Aristophanes wrote a play, The Frogs, in which Aeschylus and Euripides are presented as the greatest playwrights. The Persians is a superb play, in which the Athenian victory at Salamis (480) is celebrated, written seven years after the event the remarkable aspect is that Persians are 'round' characters, whereas their opponents are almost faceless.

#Aeschylus tragedies series#

For example, in the trilogy Agamemnon - Choephoroi - Eumenides, he describes how the gods punish a family for a series of murders. In his plays, he addresses complex theological problems. Together with Sophocles and Euripides, Aeschylus (525-456) is one of the best-known Athenian tragic poets. Aeschylus (525-456): Athenian poet, author of many tragedies, of which seven survive.