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  2. Aeschylus - Wikipedia

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    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. [17] [24] Aeschylus had at least two brothers, Cynegeirus and Ameinias.

  3. The Persians - Wikipedia

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    The work went on to win O'Reilly the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, presented by the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. Οn the occasion of the 2500th anniversary of the Battle of Salamis , on July 25, 2020, Persians was the first Ancient Greek tragedy that was played at its natural environment, i.e. the open-air theatre of Epidaurus ...

  4. John Skoyles (poet) - Wikipedia

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    His work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The American Poetry Review, Poetry, The Paris Review and others “My Mother, Heidegger, and Derrida”. He is a member of the Order of the Occult Hand and of the Writing Committee of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown , Massachusetts.

  5. Seven Against Thebes (play) - Wikipedia

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    "To call one of them Eteoklos, vis-à-vis Eteokles the brother of Polyneikes, appears to be the almost desperate invention of a faltering poet" [7] Burkert follows a suggestion made by Ernest Howald in 1939 that the Seven are pure myth led by Adrastos (the "inescapable") on his magic horse, seven demons of the Underworld; Burkert draws ...

  6. Philoctetes (Euripides play) - Wikipedia

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    Philoctetes was first performed at the City Dionysia in 431 BCE, in a tetralogy that also included the extant tragedy Medea, the lost tragedy Dictys and the lost satyr play Theristai. [8] [9] The tetralogy won third prize, finishing behind tetralogies by Euphorion (Aeschylus' son), who won first prize, and by Sophocles, who won second prize ...

  7. Robert Potter (translator) - Wikipedia

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    Potter was born in Podimore, Somerset, the third son of John Potter (fl. 1676–1723), a prebendary of Wells Cathedral. He studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and graduated BA in 1742, when he was also ordained. He married the daughter of Rev. Colman of Hardingham, Norfolk. [2] His children included a daughter, Sarah, referred to in a letter ...

  8. Oedipus - Wikipedia

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    In 467 BC, the Athenian playwright, Aeschylus, most notably wrote a trilogy based on the myth of Oedipus, winning him the first prize at the City Dionysia. Of the plays, Laius was the first, Oedipus was second, and Seven Against Thebes was the third play and the only one to have survived.

  9. Oresteia - Wikipedia

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    The Oresteia (Ancient Greek: Ὀρέστεια) is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BCE, concerning the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra, the murder of Clytemnestra by Orestes, the trial of Orestes, the end of the curse on the House of Atreus and the pacification of the Furies (also called Erinyes or Eumenides).