Aeschylus, a Greek tragedian, the son of Euphorion of Eleusis, was born in 525 BC, the son of Euphorion of Eleusis. He fought at Marathon against the Persians alongside his brother who died heroically. His surviving works include The Suppliants, The Persians, and the Oresteian trilogy comprising Agamemnon, Choephoroe and Eumenide. His plays reflect his strong religious beliefs and the principle of government by divine sanction. By 1866 when he began The Queen of The Air Ruskin was holding him in even greater esteem seeing in his work and that of the lyric poet Pindar the fullest demonstration exemplified in their use of myth of the power of the Greek imagination.