Valerius maximus aeschylus biography
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Biography
Aeschylus (UK: /ˈiːskɪləs/,[1] US: /ˈɛskɪləs/; Greek: Αἰσχύλος Aiskhýlos; c. 525/524 – c. 456/455 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 Aeschy
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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 något privat eller personligt friend of th