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Aeschylus was a man in ancient Greece who wrote plays, about two thousand five hundred years ago (people usually give his dates as about 525 to 456 BC). Teachers often say he invented the European way of doing serious plays — tragedy, the kind of story where great people fall and the audience feels fear and pity. Though actually, Greeks already sang and danced stories with a chorus; what he changed was to add a second actor, so two people could talk to each other on stage, not only speak to the group. That is why later writers call him the father of tragedy. His most famous work is a set of three plays, the Oresteia. The name came into English as a learned borrowing from Latin Aeschylus, from Greek Aiskhúlos. You say it roughly ES-kih-lus.
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組成Learned borrowing from Latin Aeschylus, from Ancient Greek Αἰσχύλος (Aiskhúlos).
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- Aeschyleanthe adjective from his name: in his grand, grave style
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Aeschylusname/ˈɛs.kə.ləs/
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A Greek dramatic poet (525 BCE—456 BCE); Aeschylus was the earliest of the three greatest Greek tragedians.
- Sophocles is indeed the greater artist, but Aeschylus is the greater genius; yet not solely by reason of his priority in time.
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historicalA male given name from Ancient Greek.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。