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Aeschylus married and had two sons, Euphorion and Euaeon, both of whom became tragic poets. Euphorion won first prize in 431 BC in competition against both Sophocles and Euripides. [23] A nephew of Aeschylus, Philocles (his sister's son), was also a tragic poet, and won first prize in the competition against Sophocles' Oedipus Rex.
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. For his portrayal of this brutal defeat, which emphasized Athens' abandonment of its colony, Phrynichus was fined and a law passed forbidding subsequent performances of his ...
A documentary film about Causley's life and work, made by Jane Darke and Andrew Tebbs of Boatshed Films, featured in several versions across the 6th and 7th festivals (2015 and 2016). A shortened version of the full 1990 film, The Poet: Charles Causley, was broadcast on BBC4 as Charles Causley: Cornwall's Native Poet on 1 October 2017.
In particular, it is said that the gods made the matter of his paternity known, whilst in Oedipus the King, Oedipus very much discovers the truth himself. [ 12 ] In 467 BC, Sophocles's fellow tragedian Aeschylus won first prize at the City Dionysia with a trilogy about the House of Laius, comprising Laius , Oedipus and Seven Against Thebes (the ...
Charles Bagot Cayley (1823–1883) was an English linguist, best known for translating Dante into the metre of the original, with annotations. He also made metrical versions of Homer’s Iliad, the Prometheus of Æschylus, and Il Canzoniere of Petrarch. He was born in St Petersburg, the son of an English merchant.
Aeschylus and Sophocles 19 Songs Afterglow At the quite close 39 James Fenimore Cooper Jr. Allegro By morning's brightest beam 95 H. or Ch. Ives The All-Enduring Amphion (from "Amphion") The mountain stirred 106 Tennyson: Ann Street Quaint name… 25 Maurice Morris: At Parting At Sea Some things are undivined 4 R. U. Johnson: At the River Shall ...
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Ion of Chios (/ ˈ aɪ ɒ n /; Ancient Greek: Ἴων ὁ Χῖος; c. 490/480 – c. 420 BC) was a Greek writer, dramatist, lyric poet and philosopher. He was a contemporary of Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles.