c. 525–456 BCE · tragic poet
Aeschylus
Αἰσχύλος
Known · AttestedNot attested in Alexandria.
The first of the three Athenian tragedians. Athens kept an official copy of his plays from the 330s BCE, and Galen tells that Ptolemy III borrowed it and kept it.
Our device: No portrait of any of these people survives. The emblems are our devices.
On the shelves
- Aeschylus, Tragedies · c. 499–456 BCE · Survives in large part
Moments
- c. 246–222 BCE · A story told by Galen: the books from the ships Legend: told story
In the show
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Sources (2)
- [Plutarch], Lives of the Ten Orators 841f
- Galen, Commentary on Hippocrates' Epidemics III 2.4 (Kühn XVIIa.607)