Explore Aeschylus through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like dramatist or playwright. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Aeschylus in a sentence
Aeschylus meaning
- A Greek dramatic poet (525 BCE—456 BCE); Aeschylus was the earliest of the three greatest Greek tragedians.
- A male given name from Ancient Greek.
Synonyms of Aeschylus
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Using Aeschylus
- The main meaning on this page is: A Greek dramatic poet (525 BCE—456 BCE); Aeschylus was the earliest of the three greatest Greek tragedians. | A male given name from Ancient Greek.
- Useful related words include: dramatist, playwright.
- Possible Dutch translations are: aischylos.
- In the example corpus, aeschylus often appears in combinations such as: of aeschylus, by aeschylus, aeschylus is.
Context around Aeschylus
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 8 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Aeschylus
- In this selection, "aeschylus" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, brings, tragedians, frogs, wrote, agamemnon and 1986 stand out and add context to how "aeschylus" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include aeschylus 1986 choephori and aeschylus aeschylus wrote. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "aeschylus" sits close to words such as aayog, absentees and accruing, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with aeschylus
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Patrice based his direction more on Aeschylus. (7 words)
Aeschylus fragment 405–410 Achilles refused, claiming to have no medical knowledge. (12 words)
But it would be an error to think of Aeschylus as sermonizing. (12 words)
Aristophanis Comoediae Tomus 1, F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart (eds), Oxford Classical Texts, Knights lines 1347-48; In The Frogs, Aeschylus is said to compose verses in the manner of a horse rolling in a sandpit. (38 words)
Aeschylus Aeschylus wrote in The Eumenides that Hermes helped Orestes kill Clytemnestra under a false identity and other stratagems, and also said that he was the god of searches, and those who seek things lost or stolen. (37 words)
In an anapestic passage in The Frogs, for instance, the character Aeschylus presents a view of poetry that is supposed to be serious but which leads to a comic interruption by the god, Dionysus: ::AES. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Aeschylus Aeschylus wrote in The Eumenides that Hermes helped Orestes kill Clytemnestra under a false identity and other stratagems, and also said that he was the god of searches, and those who seek things lost or stolen.
Patrice based his direction more on Aeschylus.
The performance based on Aeschylus’ “Agamemnon” and Euripides’ “Iphigenia at Aulis” will be performed at the ancient Delphi site’s Roman Agora.
Aeschylus (1986), Choephori; introduction by A. F. Garvie, Oxford U. P., p. x In some later versions Clytemnestra herself does the killing, or they act together as accomplices, killing Agamemnon in his own home.
Aeschylus entered many of these competitions in his lifetime, and various ancient sources attribute between seventy and ninety plays to him.
Aeschylus fragment 405–410 Achilles refused, claiming to have no medical knowledge.
Aeschylus is also said to have made the costumes more elaborate and dramatic, and having his actors wear platform boots (cothurni) to make them more visible to the audience.
Aeschylus, Suppliants frg. 202, as cited by Parker, Polytheism and Society at Athens, p. 142. Pausanias recorded a few other religious sites in Greece devoted to Prometheus.
After a debate between the two deceased bards, the god brings Aeschylus back to life as more useful to Athens on account of his wisdom, rejecting Euripides as merely clever.
All three of the major Athenian tragedians, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, were affected by the myth of Prometheus.
Aristophanis Comoediae Tomus 1, F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart (eds), Oxford Classical Texts, Knights lines 1347-48; In The Frogs, Aeschylus is said to compose verses in the manner of a horse rolling in a sandpit.
As soon as he woke from the dream, the young Aeschylus began to write a tragedy, and his first performance took place in 499 BC, when he was only 26 years old.
But it would be an error to think of Aeschylus as sermonizing.
Despite this, Aeschylus' work – particularly the Oresteia – is acclaimed by today's literary academics.
For Lynch, modern scholarship is hampered by not having the full trilogy of Prometheus by Aeschylus, the last two parts of which have been lost to antiquity.
He also developed his characters to a greater extent than earlier playwrights such as Aeschylus.
He certainly respected him enough to imitate his work early on in his career, but he had reservations about Aeschylus' style, Bowra, p. 389. and thus did not keep his imitation up.
He was acquitted, with the jury sympathetic to the wounds that Aeschylus and Cynegeirus had suffered at Marathon.
In an anapestic passage in The Frogs, for instance, the character Aeschylus presents a view of poetry that is supposed to be serious but which leads to a comic interruption by the god, Dionysus: ::AES.
It also marks the first known appearance in Aeschylus's work of a theme which would continue through his plays, that of the polis (the city) being a key development of human civilization.
Common combinations with aeschylus
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of aeschylus 5×
- by aeschylus 5×
- aeschylus is 4×
- aeschylus and 4×
- aeschylus in 4×
- to aeschylus 4×
- aeschylus aeschylus 2×
- on aeschylus 2×
- aeschylus sophocles 2×
- aeschylus as 2×