5/19/2023 0 Comments Aeschylus II by Aeschylus![]() ![]() ![]() Aristotle comments that one can let slip “things which are impious to tell” ( ἀπόρρητα) “just as Aeschylus and the mysteries,” by which he surely means the mysteries of Eleusis. Frogs 886-7 when he has Aeschylus call upon Demeter who nurtured his spirit. Aristophanes alludes to this birthplace at Aristoph. Frogs 886ff.) identify Aeschylus’ place of birth as Eleusis, the most famous center for the cult of Demeter in Greece. Later sources (the Life of Aeschylus and a scholarly commentary on Aristoph. A bit later, the same source asserts that Aeschylus died at the city of Gela in Sicily in 456/55 and informs us that he was sixty-nine years old at the time. The Parian Marble informs us that Aeschylus was thirty-five years old at the battle of Marathon. No reliable contemporary source provides us with any detailed information about the life of Aeschylus, but later sources allow us to piece together an outline. 525/524ĭeath of Aeschylus at Gela in Sicily c. Aeschylus (2), father of sculptor Asterionīirth of Aeschylus at Eleusis in Attica c. ![]()
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