Aeschylus

Aeschylus was born of a noble family near Athens in 525 BC. He took part in the Persian Wars and his epitaph, said to have been written by himself, represents him as fighting at Marathon. At some time in his life he appears to have been prosecuted for divulging the Eleusinian mysteries, but he apparently proved himself innocent. Aeschylus wrote more than seventy plays, of which seven have survived: The Suppliants, The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, Prometheus Bound, Agamemnon, The Choephori, and The Eumenides. (All are translated for Penguin Classics.) He visited Syracuse more than once at the invitation of Hieron I and he died at Gela in Sicily in 456 BC. Aeschylus was…

The Oresteia

The Oresteia

Aeschylus; Oliver Taplin
The Greek Plays

The Greek Plays

New translations edited by Mary Lefkowitz and James Romm
All That You've Seen Here Is God

All That You've Seen Here Is God

Translated by Bryan Doerries
The Persians and Other Plays

The Persians and Other Plays

Aeschylus; Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Alan H. Sommerstein
Greek Tragedy

Greek Tragedy

Aeschylus
Fragments

Fragments

Aeschylus
Oresteia: Agamemnon. Libation-Bearers. Eumenides Persians. Seven against Thebes. Suppliants. Prometheus Bound The Oresteia

The Oresteia

Aeschylus; Translated by George Thomson; Introduction by Richard Seaford
The Oresteia

The Oresteia

Aeschylus; Translated by Robert Fagles; Introduction and Notes by Robert Fagles and W. B. Stanford
Prometheus Bound and Other Plays

Prometheus Bound and Other Plays

Aeschylus; Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Philip Vellacott
The Oresteian Trilogy

The Oresteian Trilogy

Aeschylus; Translated with an Introductin and Notes by Philip Vellacott

Books by Aeschylus from New York Review Books