Αἰσχύλος
Aiskhylos, Aischylos, Aeschylus
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Translation
Athenian, tragic poet, son of Euphorion and brother of Ame[i]nias, Euphorion, and Kynageiros, who [all] fought bravely at Marathon together with him.1 He also had two sons who were tragedians, Euphorion2 and Euaion. He competed in the 9th Olympiad3 when he was 25 years old. This man was the first to invent the practice of actors having masks painted wondrously with colors and wearing felt half-boots known as embatai. He wrote both elegiac poetry and 90 tragedies. He won 28 times, though some say4 13. Exiled to Sicily following a collapse of the stage during a performance of his, a tortoise was dropped on his head by an eagle that had been carrying it, and he died at the age of 58.5
Greek original · Adler’s text
Αἰσχύλος, Ἀθηναῖος, τραγικός, υἱὸς μὲν Εὐφορίωνος, ἀδελφὸς δὲ Ἀμενίου, Εὐφορίωνος καὶ Κυναιγείρου, τῶν εἰς Μαραθῶνα ἀριστευσάντων ἅμα αὐτῷ. ἔσχε δὲ καὶ υἱοὺς τραγικοὺς δύο, Εὐφορίωνα καὶ Εὐαίωνα. ἠγωνίζετο δὲ αὐτὸς ἐν τῇ θʹ Ὀλυμπιάδι ἐτῶν ὢν κεʹ. οὗτος πρῶτος εὗρε προσωπεῖα δεινὰ χρώμασι κεχρισμένα ἔχειν τοὺς τραγικοὺς καὶ ταῖς ἀρβύλαις τοῖς καλουμένοις ἐμβάταις κεχρῆσθαι. ἔγραψε δὲ καὶ ἐλεγεῖα καὶ τραγῳδίας ʹ4ʹ· νίκας δὲ εἷλεν ηʹ καὶ κʹ, οἱ δὲ τρισκαίδεκά φασι. φυγὼν δὲ εἰς Σικελίαν διὰ τὸ πεσεῖν τὰ ἰκρία ἐπιδεικνυμένου αὐτοῦ, χελώνης ἐπιρριφείσης αὐτῷ ὑπὸ ἀετοῦ φέροντος κατὰ τῆς κεφαλῆς, ἀπώλετο ἐτῶν νηʹ γενόμενος.
Betacode
*ai)sxu/los, *)aqhnai=os, tragiko/s, ui(o\s me\n *eu)fori/wnos, a)delfo\s de\ *)ameni/ou, *eu)fori/wnos kai\ *kunaigei/rou, tw=n ei)s *maraqw=na a)risteusa/ntwn a(/ma au)tw=|. e)/sxe de\ kai\ ui(ou\s tragikou\s du/o, *eu)fori/wna kai\ *eu)ai/wna. h)gwni/zeto de\ au)to\s e)n th=| q# *)olumpia/di e)tw=n w)\n ke#. ou(=tos prw=tos eu(=re proswpei=a deina\ xrw/masi kexrisme/na e)/xein tou\s tragikou\s kai\ tai=s a)rbu/lais toi=s kaloume/nois e)mba/tais kexrh=sqai. e)/graye de\ kai\ e)legei=a kai\ tragw|di/as #4#: ni/kas de\ ei(=len h# kai\ k#, oi( de\ triskai/deka/ fasi. fugw\n de\ ei)s *sikeli/an dia\ to\ pesei=n ta\ i)kri/a e)pideiknume/nou au)tou=, xelw/nhs e)pirrifei/shs au)tw=| u(po\ a)etou= fe/rontos kata\ th=s kefalh=s, a)pw/leto e)tw=n nh# geno/menos.
Notes (5)
- c.525/4-456/5. See generally OCD(4) s.v. (pp.26-28).↩
- 1In 490. Ameinias was probably not a relation, because he came from a different deme (Herodotus 8.84): see M.R. Lefkowitz, The Lives of the Greek Poets (London 1981) 69. ↩
- 2See epsilon 3800. ↩
- 3So the transmitted numeral, equating to 744-741 BCE; suggested emendations produce the 69th (504-501) or the 70th (500-497). For this first try at competition (actually in 499) cf. pi 2230. ↩
- 4More correctly. ↩
- 5Repeated at the end of chi 191. This age does not conform to the generally accepted dates for Aeschylus' life (see above).
Linked from4 entries
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- ε3127Ἔσεισέ μου τὴν καρδίανhe shook my heartMeaning he distressed [it]. He 'shook my heart' because, expecting the poetry of Aeschylus, that of Theognis was introduced.
- ε3800ΕὐφορίωνEuphorionSon of Aeschylus the tragic poet; Athenian; a tragic poet himself. [He was the man] who won four victories with the [plays] of his father Aeschylus, which [Aeschylus] had not yet staged. He also wrote his own.
- χ191Χελώνη μυιῶνa tortoise [uncaring] of flies[sc. a proverbial phrase] in reference to those who think little of someone/something. Also [sc. attested is] 'to a tortoise'. "You think your frankness is 'worth four obols', as the saying goes. You do not know that…
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Revision history7 revisions · last 1 Dec 2015
- more keywords — David Whitehead
- updated a ref — David Whitehead
- expanded n.3 — David Whitehead
- tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Added keyword; augmented note; added italics — Elizabeth Vandiver
- corrected reference to Hdt following note from David Sansone — Ross Scaife ✝
- added notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Ross Scaife ✝