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He was a deeply religious man and gave his works a ritual character, portraying heroes as subjects of a cosmic order that determines their fate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>According to Aristotle, Aeschylus was the one who created the form of tragedy.<\/strong> He increased the number of actors from one to two and introduced dialogue, allowing for the interpretation and study of characters. He also reduced the chorus from fifty members to twelve. The chorus was given a role connected to the divine, while the central actors remain deeply human.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Of Aeschylus\u2019 ninety plays, only seven survive, all from his mature period, along with numerous fragments. His early works have not been preserved.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The two-volume edition includes the following tragedies:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Agamemnon<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Choephori <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Eumenides <\/span><\/li>\n<li>Prometheus Bound <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Persians <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The Suppliants <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Seven on Thebes <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Fragments<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The surviving tragedies of Aeschylus in a two-volume hardcover edition.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nEach volume includes the original ancient text, a modern Greek translation, and commentary.<br \/>\nLimited copies \u2013 Available while supplies last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7472,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[11921,11961,11974,11949,12015,11957],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-503357","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-ancient-greek-literature","product_cat-collections-bundles","product_cat-hard-bound","product_cat-poetry-en-2","product_cat-special-offers","product_cat-tragedy","first","instock","sale","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ancient Tragedy - Aeschylus - Hardbound Edition - \u0395\u03ba\u03b4\u03cc\u03c3\u03b5\u03b9\u03c2 \u039a\u03ac\u03ba\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kaktos.gr\/en\/product\/ancient-tragedy-aeschylus-hardbound-edition\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ancient Tragedy - Aeschylus - Hardbound Edition - \u0395\u03ba\u03b4\u03cc\u03c3\u03b5\u03b9\u03c2 \u039a\u03ac\u03ba\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The surviving tragedies of Aeschylus in a two-volume hardcover edition. 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