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Table of Contents

Prometheus Bound and Other PlaysIntroduction

Prometheus Bound

The Suppliants

Seven Against Thebes

The Persians

Notes

About the Author

Aeschylus was born of noble family near Athens in 525 BC. He took part in the Persian Wars, adn his epitahp represents him as fighting at Marathon. He wrote more than seventy plays, of which only seven have survived.