Aeschylus
Aeschylus
Born	c. 525 BC Eleusis, Greece
Died	c. 456 BC Gela, Silcy, Italy
Occupation	Playwright; soldier
Nationality	Greek
Period	Ancient Greece
Genre	Tragedy
Subject	Greek life and history
Notable works	The Persians
Notable awards	Won at the Great Dionysia 13 times.
Children	Euphorion and Euæon
Relatives	Philocles (nephew)

The funeral mask known as the “Agamemnon Mask”. Gold, found in Tomb V in Mycenae by Heinrich Schliemann (1876), XVIth century BC. National Archeological Museum, Athens

Aeschylus (525 BC – 456 BC) was an Ancient Greek poet and writer. He wrote about 70–90 plays. Only six of his tragedies have survived complete. Aeschylus was the earliest of the three greatest Greek writers of tragedians. The two others were Sophocles and Euripides.

Aristotle said that Aeschylus added more characters into his plays. His characters spoke to each other and not just to the chorus. This made it easier to create drama between the characters.