Prometheus Bound and Other Plays: The Suppliants; Seven Against Thebes; The Persians (Penguin Classics) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Prometheus Bound and Other Plays: The Suppliants; Seven Against Thebes; The Persians Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. This translation is accompanied by an introduction, with individual discussions of the plays, and their sources in history and mythology.
Full description- Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
- Published: 28 June 1973
- Format: Paperback 160 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Plays, Playscripts
- ISBN 13: 9780140441123 ISBN 10: 0140441123
- Sales rank: 79,802
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Full description for Prometheus Bound and Other Plays: The Suppliants; Seven Against Thebes; The Persians
Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In "Prometheus Bound", the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punished by Zeus for daring to improve the state of wretchedness and servitude in which mankind is kept. "The Suppliants" tells the story of the fifty daughters of Danaus who must flee to escape enforced marriages, while "Seven Against Thebes" shows the inexorable downfall of the last members of the cursed family of Oedipus. And "The Persians", the only Greek tragedy to deal with events from recent Athenian history, depicts the aftermath of the defeat of Persia in the battle of Salamis, with a sympathetic portrayal of its disgraced King Xerxes. Philip Vellacott's evocative translation is accompanied by an introduction, with individual discussions of the plays, and their sources in history and mythology.
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