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The death of Aeschylus illustrated in the 15th century Florentine Picture Chronicle by Maso Finiguerra [25] In 458 BC, Aeschylus returned to Sicily for the last time, visiting the city of Gela, where he died in 456 or 455 BC.
Aeschylus was not the first to write a play about the Persians — his older contemporary Phrynichus wrote two plays about them. The first, The Sack of Miletus (written in 493 BC, 21 years before Aeschylus' play), concerned the destruction of an Ionian colony of Athens in Asia Minor by the Persians.
According to Diogenes Laertius, the Pre-Socratic philosopher from Sicily, who, in one of his surviving poems, declared himself to have become a "divine being... no longer mortal", [24] tried to prove he was an immortal god by leaping into Mount Etna, an active volcano. [25] [26] The Roman poet Horace also alludes to this legend. [27] Sogdianus ...
Hieron's reign was marked by the creation of what is believed to be the first secret police in Greek history, yet he was a liberal patron of literature and culture. The poets Simonides, Pindar, Bacchylides, Aeschylus, and Epicharmus were active at his court, as well the philosopher Xenophanes. He was an active participant in pan-hellenic ...
Syracuse (Ancient Greek: Συρακοῦσαι) was an ancient Greek city-state, located on the east coast of Sicily, Magna Graecia.The city was founded by settlers from Corinth in 734 or 733 BCE, and was conquered by the Romans in 212 BCE, after which it became the seat of Roman rule in Sicily.
Friends and family of the victims who died when the superyacht Bayesian sank off the coast of Italy are remembering their loved ones — and still seeking answers — three months after the ...
After the death of his brother Hiero I, ... Aeschylus writes Seven Against Thebes and wins the Dionysia. Aeschylus' play, The Persians is produced in Sicily. 466 BC
Specialist divers surveying the wreckage of the $40 million superyacht that sank off Sicily in August, killing seven people including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, have asked for heightened ...