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拍品專文
Aischylos (525-456 B.C.) is often characterized as the Father of Greek drama. He was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose works have survived (the others being Sophocles and Euripides) -- amongst his notable works: The Persians; Seven Against Thebes; The Suppliants; The Oresteia; and Agamemnon.
There are a few different portrait types that have been assigned by scholars as representations of Aischylos, without assurance, as no portrait with an identifying inscription survives. According to Richter (Portraits of the Greeks, p. 77), it is likely that the Greek original portrait upon which the Roman copies are based was erected in Athens by decree of the orator Lycourgos in the late 4th century (more than a century after his death) together with portraits of Sophocles and Euripides. The abundance of Roman copies have been identified as the "unassigned" poet by its repeated association with portraits of the other dramatists.
There are a few different portrait types that have been assigned by scholars as representations of Aischylos, without assurance, as no portrait with an identifying inscription survives. According to Richter (Portraits of the Greeks, p. 77), it is likely that the Greek original portrait upon which the Roman copies are based was erected in Athens by decree of the orator Lycourgos in the late 4th century (more than a century after his death) together with portraits of Sophocles and Euripides. The abundance of Roman copies have been identified as the "unassigned" poet by its repeated association with portraits of the other dramatists.