Aeschylus: The First Legendary Ancient Greek Theatre

The first European dramatist Aeschylus is one of three legendary ancient Greek writers, who specialize in Greek tragedy. Joining him are legend’s Sophocles and Euripides. These men framed what societies called theater into what is it today by reconstructing the ways Greeks viewed theater. Aeschylus essentially learned to express the meaning of his plays through experience and creativity. He was a man who’s main purpose was to produce the correlation of man and the many gods the Greek’s believed in [4].
Aeschylus was born into a noble and wealthy family in 525 B.C, and lived in Eleusis, Greece. Growing up and working in a vineyard inspired him to utilize his capabilities and participate in writing tragedies in honor of Dionysus, the god of wine, theater and revelry. [1] Aeschylus believed that he saw Dionysus with a blade in his dream, and that direct “his attention to tragic art [2]”. Aeschylus won first prize in multiple times with his expressive and new way of writing tragedies. Although he won first prize multiple times in writing …show more content…
During the classical period, tragedies were only performed once but after Aeschylus died people wanted too continue to restage his work. Aeschylus essentially inspired other people to continue to perform personal interpretations of the initial story. Agamemnon is a story about characters experiencing depression, sacrifices, justice, death, faith, and revenge [5]. One of the main characters, aggressive Clytemnestra is seeking revenge on her husband Agamemnon because he believed that in order acquire wind for the garden, he must sacrificed their daughter, Iphigenia to the Artemis, “a goddess of chastity, virginity, the hunt, the moon, and the natural environment [6].” This play is different from other writers during this time because it had three characters Agamemnon, Clytemnestra and Cassandra, and in addition the chorus, to add to the