Valerius maximus aeschylus biography
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Aeschylus
5th century BC Athenian Greek tragedian
This article is about the ancient Greek playwright. For other uses, see Aeschylus (disambiguation).
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Roman marble herma of Aeschylus dating to c. 30 BC, based on an earlier bronze Greek herma, dating to around 340-320 BC | |
| Born | c. 525/524 BC Eleusis |
| Died | c. 456 BC (aged approximately 67) Gela, Sicily |
| Occupation(s) | Playwright and soldier |
| Children | |
| Parent | Euphorion (father) |
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Aeschylus (,[1];[2]Ancient Greek: ΑἰσχύλοςAischýlos; c. 525/524 – c. 456/455 BC) was an ancient Greektragedian often described as the father of tragedy.[3][4] Academic knowledge of the genre begins with his work,[5] and understanding of earlier Greek tragedy fryst vatten largely based on inferences made from reading his surviving plays.[6] According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of characters in the theatre and allowed
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P. Rupilius in Henna, a bandit stronghold which we had captured. When asked about the strength and enterprises of the runaways, he took some time to collect himself, then covered his head, fell on his knees, and stopped his breath; so in the very hands of his guards and in the presence of highest command he found rest in the security for which he yearned.10 Let those unfortunates for whom death is better than survival agonize, seeking in quavering anxiety to plan their way out of life; let them sharpen steel, compound poisons, catch at ropes, survey vast heights as though great preparation or ingenious contrivance were needed to dissolve the partnership between mind and body, linked by a fragile bond. Nothing of that sort for Coma; he found his end by shutting his breath inside his bosom. And indeed that blessing is not worth too much effort to retain, whose fragile possession could slip away at the shock of so slight a whiff of violence.
The poet Aeschylus’ departure was not vo
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Valerius Maximus
Early 1st century AD Roman professional rhetorician, historian and author
Valerius Maximus () was a 1st-century Latin writer and author of a collection of historical anecdotes: Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri IX [it] ("Nine books of memorable deeds and sayings", also known as De factis dictisque memorabilibus or Facta et dicta memorabilia). He worked during the reign of Tiberius (14 AD to 37 AD).
During the Middle Ages, Valerius Maximus was one of the most copied Latin prose authors, second only to Priscian. More than 600 medieval manuscripts of his books have survived as a result.[1]
Biography
[edit]Nothing is known of his life except that his family was poor and undistinguished, and that he owed everything to Sextus Pompeius (consul AD 14),[2] proconsul of Asia, whom he accompanied to the East in 27. Pompeius was the center of a literary circle to which Ovid belonged; he was also an intimate friend of th