Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Aeschylus himself appears as a character in a play by another ancient Greek playwright named Aristophanes. Aristophanes' play is a comedy that takes place right after the death of a writer named Euripides. At the end of the play, Euripides goes head to head with Aeschylus in an underworld poetry slam. (Source.)
The 19th century American poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson referenced the Eumenides (the goddesses, not the play specifically) in his poem "Fate." (Source.)
Aeschylus's Oresteia (of which the Agamemnon is Part I) is the only surviving ancient Greek tragic trilogy. (Source.)
The 20th century American poet T. S. Eliot's verse-play The Family Reunion is in part an adaptation of Aeschylus's The Eumenides.(Source.)
The 20th century American poet Sylvia Plath frequently refers to the Oresteia in her works, for example in her famous poem "The Colossus." (Source.)