Aeschylus: The Father of Tragedy by Jaqui Sabino https://padlet.com/jsabino17/t3fcgnkt67l2 By Clare Glavin & Jaqui Sabino en-us 2017-01-26 16:26:49 UTC 2026-03-06 17:26:39 UTC hello@padlet.com Quotes jsabino17 https://padlet.com/jsabino17/t3fcgnkt67l2/wish/149659927 “Fear is stronger than arms.”
― Aeschylus, The Seven Against Thebes

“For many men value appearances more than reality—thus they violate what’s right. Everyone’s prepared to sigh over some suffering man, though no sorrow really eats their hearts, or they can pretend to join another person’s happiness forcing their faces into smiling masks. But a good man discerns true character— he’s not fooled by eyes feigning loyalty, favouring him with watered-down respect.”
― Aeschylus, Agamemnon
 
"Time in its aging course teaches all things."
― Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

"God plants a fault in mortals when he wills to destroy a house utterly."
― Aeschylus,  Niobe
(think man is God's prosthetic arm)

 

]]> 2017-01-26 16:30:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jsabino17/t3fcgnkt67l2/wish/149659927 Basic Information cglavin17 https://padlet.com/jsabino17/t3fcgnkt67l2/wish/149660086 Born: c. 523 BC
Death: c. 456 BC
Children: Euphorion and Euaeon 
Occupation: Playwright and Soldier

]]> 2017-01-26 16:31:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jsabino17/t3fcgnkt67l2/wish/149660086 cglavin17 https://padlet.com/jsabino17/t3fcgnkt67l2/wish/149661417 2017-01-26 16:34:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jsabino17/t3fcgnkt67l2/wish/149661417 cglavin17 https://padlet.com/jsabino17/t3fcgnkt67l2/wish/149662274 2017-01-26 16:36:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jsabino17/t3fcgnkt67l2/wish/149662274 Works jsabino17 https://padlet.com/jsabino17/t3fcgnkt67l2/wish/149662295 Aeschylus wrote an estimate of 70-90 tragedies, but only 7 survived.  His works include 

]]> 2017-01-26 16:36:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jsabino17/t3fcgnkt67l2/wish/149662295 Focus Points and Themes cglavin17 https://padlet.com/jsabino17/t3fcgnkt67l2/wish/149696292 Aeschylus focused on the main roles of his plays. He made the chorus less important which was unprecedented for the time. He is sometimes credited with introducing skenographia, or scene-decoration (Aristotle gives this distinction to Sophocles, though). He also made his costumes more dramatic than other playwrights. His work is also notable and unprecedented for the time since his plays were written in verse, no violence is performed on stage, and he set his plays in far-away lands. 

His plays Myrmidons and Nereids were both based on Homer's Iliad. Both plays were lost but the titles and fragments of the play still remain.
]]> 2017-01-26 17:59:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jsabino17/t3fcgnkt67l2/wish/149696292 jsabino17 https://padlet.com/jsabino17/t3fcgnkt67l2/wish/149783051 2017-01-26 23:27:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jsabino17/t3fcgnkt67l2/wish/149783051 jsabino17 https://padlet.com/jsabino17/t3fcgnkt67l2/wish/149790960 2017-01-27 01:33:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jsabino17/t3fcgnkt67l2/wish/149790960 Relationship To Sophocles and Euripides jsabino17 https://padlet.com/jsabino17/t3fcgnkt67l2/wish/149791631 While Aeschylus was alive before Sophocles and Euripides, his sons and nephew were alive at the same time as them. His son, Euphorion, who was also a tragic poet, won his first prize in a completion against Sophocles and Euripides.  His nephew, also a tragic poet, later beat Sophocles' Oedipus Rex.

]]> 2017-01-27 01:45:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jsabino17/t3fcgnkt67l2/wish/149791631 Influence jsabino17 https://padlet.com/jsabino17/t3fcgnkt67l2/wish/149792015 Aeschylus was loved by the Ancient Greek community.  This can be seen in the praise Aristophanes gave him in The Frogs, which was written after Aeschylus's death. As a character in the play,, Aeschylus claims that his Seven against Thebes "made everyone watching it to love being warlike"; with his Persians, Aeschylus claims that he "taught the Athenians to desire always to defeat their enemies." He also goes on to say that his plays inspired the Athenians to be brave and virtuous.]]> 2017-01-27 01:51:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jsabino17/t3fcgnkt67l2/wish/149792015 cglavin17 https://padlet.com/jsabino17/t3fcgnkt67l2/wish/149792955 Similar to Antigone, the bravery and death of Patroclus in Aeschylus's Myrmidons are reported in a messenger's speech, which is followed by mourning.]]> 2017-01-27 02:05:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jsabino17/t3fcgnkt67l2/wish/149792955 Aeschylus as a Tragic Hero jsabino17 https://padlet.com/jsabino17/t3fcgnkt67l2/wish/149793052 Aeschylus worked at a vineyard at his youth until he was visited by the god Dionysus, who told him to turn his attention to writing tragedies.  Because he listened to the message and followed his fate, he is a tragic hero.]]> 2017-01-27 02:06:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jsabino17/t3fcgnkt67l2/wish/149793052 Aeschylus in Modern Times cglavin17 https://padlet.com/jsabino17/t3fcgnkt67l2/wish/149793879 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/21/theresa-may-citizenship-tom-mccarthy-aeschylus
Aeschylus's The Oresteia is mentioned in an article by The Guardian discussing Theresa May's stance on citizenship. Author Tom McCarthy writes, "that one is a citizen not simply because of an internal relation to one’s community, although that’s part of the picture, but because of a relation to a complex, often troubled outside; through the acceptance of the outsider into your place and yourself into theirs" in order to connect the play and Theresa May's stance on citizenship.]]> 2017-01-27 02:20:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jsabino17/t3fcgnkt67l2/wish/149793879