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What does Aeschylus mean?

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Proper noun
  1. A Greek dramatic poet (525 BCE—456 BCE); Aeschylus was the earliest of the three greatest Greek tragedians.
  2. (historical) A male given name.
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The idea is not of much help in reading Aeschylus and of intermittent usefulness in Euripides.
In the Aristophanes original, Aeschylus and Euripides debated over which of the two was the best tragedian.
This huge opera is nothing less than a setting in Russian of almost the entire plot of the trilogy of Aeschylus.
Clytemnestra's avengers, the Erinyes, suffer a similar fate at the hands of male mythologists and Aeschylus.
Born around 524 or 525 B.C. in the city of Eleusis near Athens, the Greek dramatist Aeschylus is known as the first great tragedian.
As Aeschylus and other tragedians appreciated, words could be used to make what is false appear true and what was true false.

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