This excellent introduction to the six extant plays of Aeschylus is fully revised and updated, with additional further reading, ideal for the student unfamiliar with these earliest of Greek tragedies. Aeschylus is the oldest of the three great Greek tragedians and lived from 525/524 to 465/455. He took part in the battle of Marathon in 490 and probably also in the battle of Salamis in 480, the subject of his _Persians_. Working in chronological order of their first production, this volume explores _Persians_, the earliest Greek tragedy that has come down to us; _Seven against Thebes_; _ Suppliants_; and the three plays of the Oresteia trilogy: _Agamemnon_, _ Libation Bearers _and _Eumenides_. The book also contains an essay on _Prometheus Bound_, now generally thought not to be by Aeschylus, but accepted as his in antiquity. The volume is a companion to _The Plays of Euripides _(by James Morwood) and _The Plays of Sophocles _(by Alex Garvie) also available in second editions from Bloomsbury. A further essential guide to the themes and context of ancient Greek tragedy may be found in Laura Swift's new introductory volume, ___Greek Tragedy_.