This excellent introduction to the six extant plays of Aeschylus is fully revised and updated, with additional further reading, ideal for the student unfamiliar with these earliest of Greek tragedies. Aeschylus is the oldest of the three great Greek tragedians and lived from 525524 to 465455. He took part in the battle of Marathon in 490 and probably also in the battle of Salamis in 480, the subject of his Persians.