AESCHYLUS III

— Allen J. Romano, allenjromano@gmail.com

Week 3: The Folly of Thebans

Seven Against Thebes

468 BCE

1.1

Tetrologies

484 BCE

Aeschylus First Victory

472

Persians

468

Sophocles' First competition

?463

Suppliants

467

Seven Against Thebes

458

Oresteia

  • Laius, Oedipus, Seven Against Thebes, Sphinx
  • The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephori, Eumenides, Proteus
  • Edonoi, Bassaridae, Neoniskoi, Lykurgos

    Suspected:
  • Egyptians, Suppliants, Danaids, Amymone

  • (Iliad) Myrmidons, Nereids, Phrygians Thalamapoioi

  • (Odyssey) Psychagogoi, Penelope, Ostologoi, Circe

  • (Aethiopis) Cares, Memnon, Psychostasia

  • (Ajax) Decision of Arms, Thracians, Salaminians

  • (Dionysus) Semele, Xantriai, Pentheus, Trophoi

  • (Adrastus) Eleusinians, Argives, Epigonoi, Nemea

  • (Argonauts) Lemnians, Hypsipyle, Kabeiroi, Argo

Tetralogogies = 3 tragedies + satyr play

Pronomos Vase

Athens, c. 400 BCE

  • Aeschylus won first with Laius, Oedipus, Seven, Sphinx
  • Aristias won second with Perseus, Tantalus and the Palaistais of his father Pratinos
  • third was Poluphrasmon [son of Phrynichus] with a Lykurgan tetralogy

Hypothesis to the Seven

– surviving text of Aeschylus' Oedipus

1.2

Myths of Thebes

1.3

Sound of Tragedy

2.1

Surviving Greek Tragedy