Aeschylus (Greek: Ασχύλος, IPA: or , 525 BC/524 BC – 456 BC) was an ancient Greekplaywright. He is often recognized as the father or the founder of tragedy, and is the earliest of the three Greek tragedians whose plays survive, the others being Sophocles and Euripides. He expanded the number of characters in plays to allow for conflict between them; previously, characters interacted only with the chorus. Unfortunately, only seven of the estimated seventy plays written by Aeschylus have survived into modern times.
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