Aeschylus bust replica, 21 cm, 1,6 kg
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Aeschylus-Bust Capitoline Museum Rome, original
Aeschylus, one of the great three classical tragedy poets of ancient Greece, alongside Sophocles and Euripides.
Aeschylus was born in 525 BC in the town of Eleusis in Attica as the son of a major landowner. He took part as a heavily armed man in the Persian battles at Marathon and Salamis.
He won 13 victories in the tragic Agonese, a poetry competition. Of his 90 or so works, only seven have been handed down, whereby the "bound Prometheus" is probably his best-known work. The figure of Prometheus has inspired many poets, including Goethe, Calderón, Byron, Shelley, music artists such as Liszt, Skrjabin, Orff and the visual arts of modern times.
Aeschylus died on Sicily in 456 BC. Legend has it that an eagle thought his shiny, mirror-smooth skull was a rock and wanted to smash a turtle on it. Thus the epic died, true to his tragedy poems, in keeping with his condition.
Aeschylus bust in special edition, reduction - exhibit of the Capitoline Museum, Rome.
This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday, January 28, 2014.