Aeschylus

Aeschylus was born around 525 BC at Eleusis, near Athens. He is the earliest of the three great Athenian tragedians whose plays survive, followed by Sophocles and Euripides. Ancient writers credit him with adding a second actor to tragedy, which had earlier used one actor and a chorus, making real dialogue and conflict on stage possible. He fought for Athens against the Persians at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC, where his brother was killed, and probably at Salamis as well; his play The Persians, staged in 472 BC, deals with the Persian defeat. He won first prize at the Athenian drama festivals many times. Of the many plays he wrote, seven survive under his name, including the Oresteia (458 BC), the only complete Greek tragic trilogy to come down to us: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides. He visited Sicily more than once and died at Gela around 456 BC.

Aeschylus is also an author in the library: author page and works.

Faith: Faith not well documented beyond the traditional Greek religion of Athens, at whose religious festivals his plays were performed. Source: Wikipedia