Aeschylus biography summary graphic organizer
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Ancient Greece Biography or Event Poster
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Activity Overview
Researching real people and events helps students to gain a more concrete understanding of the culture, lives and diverse perspectives of people who lived in ancient times. Giving students the perspective of those who lived during a time period helps them go beyond simply memorizing dates and names to acquire a more substantial, empathetic and realistic view of the period. In this activity, students will create a biography poster about a famous or significant figure or event in ancient Greece.
Teachers can assign students a specific person or an event or they may give students a choice. Teachers may wish to provide resources such as books or an online encyclopedia for students to read about their person or event.
These posters can be printed out, laminated and hung around the room as a visual reminder of notable people and events from the time of ancie
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The Persians
44 pages • 1 hour read
Aeschylus
Aeschylus
Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE
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Aeschylus’s ThePersians celebrates the Greek victory at Salamis, but the tragedy is set entirely in the Persian court at Susa. Why did Aeschylus compose his tragedy this way? How does the mourning of the Persians underscore the magnitude of the Greek victory over them? Do you think that Aeschylus is sympathetic towards the Persians?
Teaching Suggestion: The question of how to interpret Aeschylus’s sympathy for the Persian characters of his play remains important among classical scholars, though it is generall • It fryst vatten with profound pleasure that we support Denmark's Louisiana Literature. As a postscript to this year's edition of the festival, we present below a new translation bygd esteemed poet, classicist and guest Anne Carson. The Persians, produced B.C., fryst vatten the oldest surviving ancient Greek tragedy. It fryst vatten also the only one that deals with an historic event, namely the wars between Greece and Persia that took place when Xerxes, king of Persia, decided somewhat whimsically in B.C. to invade and mästare Greece. He was defeated at the Battle of Salamis, in B.C. This battle recorded the single greatest loss of human life in a single day in history up to that time. Aeschylus himself fought in the battle and witnessed its atrocities. Nonetheless, he chose to tell the story of the entire catastrophe from the point of view of his enemies. The Persians is one long lament for the folly of this battle, the övermod of Xerxes, the devastations of war in general, and the ruin of civi
The Persians