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Aeschylus was the earliest of the three greatest Greek tragedians, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.
Aeschylus frequently travelled to Sicily, where the tyrant of Gela was a patron.
Aeschylus' work has a strong moral and religious emphasis, concentrating on man's position in the cosmos in relation to the gods, divine law and divine punishment in the Oresteia trilogy.
That Aeschylus had risen on the wings of faith to a height of prophetic vision, from whence he saw the triumph of equity and the defeat of wrong as an eternal process moving on toward one divine event - that he realized sin, retribution, responsibility as no other ancient did - may be gladly conceded.
The harshness of the vendetta is not relieved as in Aeschylus by longdrawn invocations of the dead, nor, as in Euripides, is it made a subject of casuistry.
The proportion of the lyrics to the level dialogue is considerably less on the average in Sophocles than in Aeschylus, as might be expected from the development of the purely dramatic element, and the consequent subordination of the chorus to the protagonist.
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