Contributions of Aeschylus and Sophocles to Drama

The most prestigious of the drama festivals held in Athens was the City Dionysia, held of a six-day period. Hundreds of visitors, dignitaries, and rural citizens crowded the city to see the spectacle. Aeschylus (524-456 B.C.) and Sophocles (496-406 B.C.), two playwrights of the era, held top honors at the festival for many years. Their contributions laid the foundation for modern drama as we know it today.

Aeschylus, the first of Athens' two greatest tragedy writers, was born into an aristocratic, land- rich family just to the northwest of Athens at the height of the city's greatness. Ignoring the more common themes of love and passion, his thinking was more towards theology and serious contemplations of humanistic questions, such as the nature of justice. He credits much of his poetic success to the epic, labeling his plays the "scraps from Homer's banquet." Aeschylus made such significant contributions to the development

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