The Greek playwright Aeschylus (524-456 BC) is the first European dramatist whose plays have been preserved. He is also the earliest of the great Greek tragedians, and more than any other he is concerned with the interrelationship of man and the gods....

In the city of Athens in the fifth century B.C., Aeschylus, the Father of Tragedy, developed a spectacle in which choral song and dance alternated with solo speeches into one of the major genres of world literature. The ninety plays that Aeschylus...

Sections of an ancient Greek theater were discovered on Thursday during construction work in an Athens suburb, archaeologists said.Until now, only two such buildings were known in the ancient city where western theater originated more than 2,500 years ago.Fifteen rows of concentric stone seats have...

Mark Weil, an Uzbek theater director whose productions caused controversy in the tightly controlled former Soviet republic, was stabbed to death outside his home, a theater spokeswoman said Friday. He was 55.Weil was attacked in front of his apartment building in Uzbekistan's capital, Tashkent, late...

In the following, which was first published in German in 1986, Zimmermann provides an overview of the plots and themes of Aeschylus's plays.

In this essay, Podlecki examines Aeschylus's presentation of women in his plays, in a effort to "refute any charge of male chauvinism against the dramatist. " Aeschylus's female characters, he insists, "are handled in a life-like and convincing way, with sensitivity and understanding. "

In the following essay, Caldwell discerns an "oedipal pattern" operating in all of Aeschylus' plays. The "effect of a father upon his children," he claims, is "the most important single element in the total work of Aeschylus."

The different views of using violence as justice in ancient Greece as portrayed in the works of Aeschylus and Homer. Homer's works condone violence as a form of justice, while Aeschylus attempts to show the harm of counteracting violence with more violence.