Other than Sophocles, before him, were Aeschylus and Euripides. ... Aeschylus composed his first tragedy at the age of twenty six years old (Bates). ... When Aeschylus began play writing, it was a fairly new idea. ... Among them is most famous work, Agamemnon. Aeschylus's plays held a recurring set of traits. ...

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