Excerpt from The House of Atreus: Being the Agamemnon, Libation-Bearers and Furies of Aeschylus Zeschylus, son of Euphorion, an Athenian of the deme of Eleusis, was born, rc. 52 5. He consecrated his life to the tragic art from his youth upwards yet he isfheld to have been a valiant soldier, and with his brother Cynegirus to have fought at Marathon, and at Salamis, and at Plataea as some say. Afterwards, being at variance with the Athenians, he went away from them unto Sicily, and dwelt at the court of Hiero, tyrant of ...
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Excerpt from The House of Atreus: Being the Agamemnon, Libation-Bearers and Furies of Aeschylus Zeschylus, son of Euphorion, an Athenian of the deme of Eleusis, was born, rc. 52 5. He consecrated his life to the tragic art from his youth upwards yet he isfheld to have been a valiant soldier, and with his brother Cynegirus to have fought at Marathon, and at Salamis, and at Plataea as some say. Afterwards, being at variance with the Athenians, he went away from them unto Sicily, and dwelt at the court of Hiero, tyrant of Gela, and was held by him in high honour. He died in his sixty-ninth year by a strange fate, whereof he had been warned in an oracle, saying A xii/0136 from have ska]! Slay t/zee. For as he was walking on the shore, an eagle, that had snatched up a tortoise into the air, let it drop; and it fell upon him, and he died. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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