Aeschylus
Also known as: Aeschylos · Æschylus
Aeschylus fought in the Persian Wars and portrayed the Persian defeat at Salamis in his drama The Persians. Aeschylus’s The Persians depicts the consequences of Xerxes’s failed invasion.
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Wrote The Persians
Aeschylus wrote The Persians, an early dramatic treatment of the defeat at Salamis.
Dramatized Persian defeat
Aeschylus’s The Persians depicts the consequences of Xerxes’s failed invasion.
Participant and dramatist
Aeschylus fought in the Persian Wars and portrayed the Persian defeat at Salamis in his drama The Persians.