Tragedias completas de Esquilo, Sófocles y Eurípides

by Aeschylus, Sófocoles, Euripides

Genres: Classics

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About the author

Greek Αισχύλος , Esquilo in Spanish, Eschyle in French, Eschilo in Italian, Эсхил in Russian.

Aeschylus (c. 525/524 BC – c. 456 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian often described as the father of tragedy. Academic knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier Greek tragedy is largely based on inferences made from reading his surviving plays. According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of characters in the theatre and allowed conflict among them. Formerly, characters interacted only with the chorus.
Only seven of Aeschylus's estimated 70 to 90 plays have survived. There is a long-standing debate regarding the authorship of one of them, Prometheus Bound, with some scholars arguing that it may be the work of his son Euphorion. Fragments from other plays have survived in quotations, and more continue to be discovered on Egyptian papyri. These fragments often give further insights into Aeschylus' work. He was likely the first dramatist to present plays as a trilogy. His Oresteia is the only extant ancient example. At least one of his plays was influenced by the Persians' second invasion of Greece (480–479 BC). This work, The Persians, is one of very few classical Greek tragedies concerned with contemporary events, and the only one extant. The significance of the war with Persia was so great to Aeschylus and the Greeks that his epitaph commemorates his participation in the Greek victory at Marathon while making no mention of his success as a playwright.

Reviews

[Jorge Camacho · Rating 5 out of 5]

Empiezo con Esquilo, de quien tengo dos ediciones: "Tragedias", traducidas por Bernardo Perea Morales (Biblioteca Clásica Gredos, 2000), y "Tragedias completas", traducción rítmica y en verso de José Alsina Clota (Cátedra, 1983). Ya la introducción general al volumen de Gredos hace pensar en la innovación que supuso la creación del género teatral de la tragedia: unos ciudadanos actúan representando a personajes, a personas reales como el enemigo persa. Borges trató el asombro que le produce, que nos produce esta invención en su relato "La busca de Averroes".

[Marco Castaño · Rating 3 out of 5]

Los siete contra Tebas mi fav. La orestíada se me hizo algo bola porque la trama, más o menos, ya es conocida. Prometeo encadenado difiere un poco del mito. Se nota que Esquilo utilizó la escritura como herramienta política a favor de Atenas.

[Kapuss · Rating 3 out of 5]

El que tiene experiencia en la miseria
sabe, amigos, que tras una tormenta
de miserias, el hombre se estremece
ante cualquier evento, y cuando el hado
le es favorable, cree que esta brisa
habrá de serle siempre bienhechora.

[Vivi]

lecturas para literatura dramática
leí: agamenón y prometeo encadenado

[dulcemc30 · Rating 1 out of 5]

Literalmente es como leer la Biblia de los griegos

[Edwin Alejandro]

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