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    Aeschylus is the author of the earliest extant works of Greek tragedy. Tragedy written and performed at Athens in second half of fifth century BC represents culmination of art form of dramatic tragedy. For a modern reader, Aeschylean tragedy is both the earliest representation of Greek tragedy, and yet simultaneously indebted to (and perhaps the zenith) an earlier tragic tradition, of which no examples now survive.

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    Aeschylus is the author of the earliest extant works of Greek tragedy. Tragedy written and performed at Athens in second half of fifth century BC represents culmination of art form of dramatic tragedy. For a modern reader, Aeschylean tragedy is both the earliest representation of Greek tragedy, and yet simultaneously indebted to (and perhaps the zenith) an earlier tragic tradition, of which no examples now survive.

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    Aeschylus is the author of the earliest extant works of Greek tragedy. Tragedy written and performed at Athens in second half of fifth century BC represents culmination of art form of dramatic tragedy. For a modern reader, Aeschylean tragedy is both the earliest representation of Greek tragedy, and yet simultaneously indebted to (and perhaps the zenith) an earlier tragic tradition, of which no examples now survive.

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    What are the distinctive qualities of Aeschylean tragedy?

    As the author of the earliest extant works of Greek tragedy, it is fair to argue, as Richmond

    Lattimore does, that “Tragedy, for us, begins with Aeschylus”1. At the same time, the tragedy

    written and performed at Athens in the second half of the fifth century BC represents the

    culmination of the art form of dramatic tragedy which began in the combination of choral and lyric

    performances a generation before the era of Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus. Thus, for a

    modern reader, Aeschylean tragedy is both the earliest representation of Greek tragedy, and yet

    simultaneously indebted to (and indeed perhaps the zenith of) an earlier tragic tradition, of which no

    examples now survive.

    1 Aeschylus, Oresteia, ed. David Grene & Richmond Lattimore, trans. Lattimore, (Chicago, 1953), p.4.

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