Approximate date of incident in the legend that Æschylos was set to watch grapes as they were ripening for the vintage, and fell asleep; and lo! as he slept Dionysos appeared to him and bade him give himself to write tragedies for the great festival of the god. And when he awoke, he found himself invested with new powers of thought and utterance, and the work was as easy to him as if he had been trained to it for many years (Pausan, _Att._ i. 21, § 3).[1] 499 Æschylos exhibited his first tragedy, in unsuccessful competition with Pratinas and Chœrilos.…
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