In his first competition he lost to Pratinus and Choerilus, but the contest was so exciting that the theater benches collapsed under the weight of the spectators.   
He spent the last years of his life in Sicily, where he wrote a work about the founding of Syracuse, Women of Etna.  In his first competition he lost to Pratinus and Choerilus, but the contest was so exciting that the theater benches collapsed under the weight of the spectators.   He wrote 97 plays in all, the earliest surviving one of which depicts the flight to Argos of the fifty daughters of Danaus.  In another of his plays, two brothers fight to the death before the walls of Thebes, while he sympathized with Queen Atossa in The Persians. FTP, name this first of Athens' great tragic dramatists, who wrote Seven Against Thebes, Prometheus Bound, and the Oresteia.
He spent the last years of his life in Sicily, where he wrote a work about the founding of Syracuse, Women of Etna.  
Aeschylus