The complete online text of Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays by Aeschylus.

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. Ae...

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 wrote...

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 wrote...

Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 The Suppliant Maidens (circa 490 B.C.) Background: The Suppliant Maidens is generally considered to be the earliest extant Greek drama, and is commonly thought to have been first produced in about 490 B.C. A recently discovered papyrus seems to indicate, however,...

Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Suppliants Background: Polyneices and Eteocles, sons of Oedipus, were to have shared the kingdom of Thebes, but Eteocles banished Polyneices. To regain his rights, Polyneices joined Adrastus, king of Argos, in an attack on Thebes. In the battle both Polyneices and...