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How many plays did Aeschylus write?

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He wrote perhaps 90 plays (7 survive in full) and won 13 first prizes at the Greater Dionysia, the spring dramatic festival in which each dramatist submitted four connected playsÑa tragic trilogy and a lighter satyr play.

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