The first part of this article seeks to reinforce the case made by S. Scullion that the fabled contest between Aeschylus, Pratinas and Choerilus in about 499, which was supposed to be the occasion of Aeschylus’s first dramatic production, is an invention and that ancient scholars did not possess detailed archival information (if any information at all) concerning the early years of his career. The second part argues that, while the tradition that the poet died at Gela in Sicily is very probably true, he almost certainly did not intend to settle there permanently and there is no reason to believe that he left Athens soon after presenting the Oresteia in 458. It then considers Aeschylus’s possible route from Athens to Sicily and argues that he could not easily have made the journey before the Athenians seized Naupactus, probably in 456.

本文的第一部分力求加强S. Scullion提出的案例，即约499年在Aeschylus，Pratinas和Choerilus之间进行的寓言比赛是一个发明，古代学者认为这是Aeschylus首次戏剧性制作的场合。没有关于他职业生涯早期的详细档案信息（如果有的话）。第二部分认为，虽然诗人死于西西里岛的格拉的传统很可能是真实的，但他几乎可以肯定并没有打算永久地定居在那里，也没有理由相信他在介绍了奥列斯蒂亚之后不久就离开了雅典。 458年。然后，它考虑了埃斯库罗斯（Aeschylus）从雅典到西西里岛的可能路线，并辩称，在雅典人占领纳乌帕克图斯之前（大概是456年），他不可能轻易完成这一旅程。