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en-wikipedia-org-2867		Aeschylus - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	7889	1108	70	The seeds of Greek drama were sowed in religious festivals for the gods, chiefly Dionysus, the god of wine.[14] During Aeschylus' lifetime, dramatic competitions became part of the City Dionysia, held in spring.[14] The festival opened with a procession which was followed by a competition of boys singing dithyrambs, and all culminated in a pair of dramatic competitions.[28] The first competition Aeschylus would have participated in involved three playwrights each presenting three tragedies and one satyr play.[28] Such format is called a continuous tragic tetralogy.[citation needed] It allowed Aeschylus to explore the human and theological and cosmic dimensions of a mythic sequence, developing it in successive phases.[29][clarification needed] A second competition involving five comedic playwrights followed, and the winners of both competitions were chosen by a panel of judges.[28] Aeschylus entered many of these competitions, and various ancient sources attribute between seventy and ninety plays to him.[3][30] Only seven tragedies attributed to him have survived intact: The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliants, the trilogy known as The Oresteia (the three tragedies Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides), and Prometheus Bound (whose authorship is disputed).	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2867.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2867.txt