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Headword:
Aischulos
Adler number: alphaiota,357
Translated headword: Aiskhylos, Aischylos, Aeschylus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Athenian, tragic poet, son of Euphorion and brother of Ame[i]nias, Euphorion, and Kynageiros, who [all] fought bravely at
Marathon together with him.[1] He also had two sons who were tragedians, Euphorion[2] and Euaion. He competed in the 9th Olympiad[3] when he was 25 years old. This man was the first to invent the practice of actors having masks painted wondrously with colors and wearing felt half-boots known as
embatai. He wrote both elegiac poetry and 90 tragedies. He won 28 times, though some say[4] 13. Exiled to
Sicily following a collapse of the stage during a performance of his, a tortoise was dropped on his head by an eagle that had been carrying it, and he died at the age of 58.[5]
Greek Original:Aischulos, Athênaios, tragikos, huios men Euphoriônos, adelphos de Ameniou, Euphoriônos kai Kunaigeirou, tôn eis Marathôna aristeusantôn hama autôi. esche de kai huious tragikous duo, Euphoriôna kai Euaiôna. êgônizeto de autos en têi th# Olumpiadi etôn ôn ke#. houtos prôtos heure prosôpeia deina chrômasi kechrismena echein tous tragikous kai tais arbulais tois kaloumenois embatais kechrêsthai. egrapse de kai elegeia kai tragôidias #4#: nikas de heilen ê# kai k#, hoi de triskaideka phasi. phugôn de eis Sikelian dia to pesein ta ikria epideiknumenou autou, chelônês epirripheisês autôi hupo aetou pherontos kata tês kephalês, apôleto etôn nê# genomenos.
Notes:
c.525/4-456/5. See generally OCD(4) s.v. (pp.26-28).
[1] In 490. Ameinias was probably
not a relation, because he came from a different deme (
Herodotus 8.84): see M.R. Lefkowitz,
The Lives of the Greek Poets (London 1981) 69.
[2] See
epsilon 3800.
[3] So the transmitted numeral, equating to 744-741 BCE; suggested emendations produce the 69th (504-501) or the 70th (500-497). For this first try at competition (actually in 499) cf.
pi 2230.
[4] More correctly.
[5] Repeated at the end of
chi 191. This age does not conform to the generally accepted dates for
Aeschylus' life (see above).
Keywords: biography; chronology; clothing; ethics; geography; military affairs; poetry; proverbs; stagecraft; trade and manufacture; tragedy; zoology
Translated by: Ross Scaife ✝ on 22 March 2002@09:17:12.
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