<Li> Women of Aetna (two versions) </Li> <Li> Women of Salamis </Li> <P> When Aeschylus first began writing, the theatre had only just begun to evolve, although earlier playwrights like Thespis had already expanded the cast to include an actor who was able to interact with the chorus . Aeschylus added a second actor, allowing for greater dramatic variety, while the chorus played a less important role . He is sometimes credited with introducing skenographia, or scene - decoration, though Aristotle gives this distinction to Sophocles . Aeschylus is also said to have made the costumes more elaborate and dramatic, and having his actors wear platform boots (cothurni) to make them more visible to the audience . According to a later account of Aeschylus's life, as they walked on stage in the first performance of the Eumenides, the chorus of Furies were so frightening in appearance that they caused young children to faint, patriarchs to urinate, and pregnant women to go into labour . </P> <P> His plays were written in verse, no violence is performed on stage, and the plays have a remoteness from daily life in Athens, either by relating stories about the gods or by being set, like The Persians, in far - away locales . Aeschylus's work has a strong moral and religious emphasis . The Oresteia trilogy concentrated on man's position in the cosmos in relation to the gods, divine law, and divine punishment . </P>

Assorted writings by the father of our republic