Fragments

Of the some eighty plays Aeschylus is said to have written, seven survive whole; the rest are known from quotations by ancient scholars, anthologists and commentators, from a few papyri and from the titles that the ancient catalogue of his dramas lists. This selection follows Smyth's arrangement for the Loeb edition: the plays in alphabetical order of their Greek titles, then the fragments that cannot be given to any play, the doubtful or spurious fragments, the elegiac lines and the epitaph. Smyth keeps only those fragments of which at least one whole verse survives. The reference of each passage is Smyth's own number, so Fragment 50 is the long speech of Europa in the Carians. Where Smyth prints a modern editor's restoration in angle brackets or marks a corrupt passage with daggers, these signs are kept. The only Latin in the collection is Cicero's version of the lament of Prometheus (Fragment 107).