TRAGEDIAS

"Greek tragic poet, born in the city of Eleusis, near Athens, in 525 or 524 BC and died in Gela (Sicily) in 456 BC; According to tradition, Aeschylus died hit received by the impact of a turtle, that an eagle (perhaps a bearded vulture) had thrown from the top and that was to fall on his head. Aeschylus is the oldest known at present tragedies authors and forms the triad in which the other two names are those of Sophocles and Euripides. Was member of a family of noble lineage, in which there were prominent men at arms; in fact, we know that he/she followed a military career and who participated in the medical wars, in the famous battles of marathon (in which he/she died his brother Cinejires), Salamis and Plataea (in the latter, his participation is not as safe, although in Persian it alludes to both battles in detail).

In your life, there is a dark but powerfully striking chapter to which it refers: his prosecution for divulging the mysteries of Eleusis, accusation of which was finally acquitted. We also know that it was related to the shot Hiero I of Syracuse, who welcomed him in his court on several occasions; about those stays in Sicily, much of the criticism maintains that his powerful rhetorical art, could refine there although in reality these visits them held in middle age, when he/she had already succeeded as dramatic author. He/She had a son, whom he/she called Euphorion (the same name as his father), which also was devoted to the composition of tragedies."