The Persians and Other Plays
The Persians / Prometheus Bound / Seven Against Thebes / The Suppliants
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- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
8 January 2010
Summary
A new translation by Alan H. Sommerstein of four of Aeschylus’ most celebrated plays.
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.
- The Persians: The only Greek tragedy to deal with events from recent Athenian history, depicts the final defeat of Persia in the battle of Salamis, through the eyes of the Persian court of King Xerxes, becoming a tragic lesson in tyranny.<…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140449990 |
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| ISBN-10: | 014044999X |
| Author: | Aeschylus, Alan H. Sommerstein |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 8 January 2010 |
| Weight: | 228g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 130mm x 199mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Audience Age: | 18-17 |
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Aeschylus
Aeschylus (born at Eleusis, near Athens, c. 525 BC; died at Gela, Sicily, 456 BC) was the dramatist who first made Athenian tragedy one of the world’s great art forms, though in his epitaph he preferred that he should be remembered as one of those who fought the Persians at Marathon. Although he is said to have written over eighty plays, only seven have survived.
Alan H. Sommerstein has been Professor of Greek at the University of Nottingham since 1988. He has written or edited more than thirty books on Ancient Greek language and literature, especially tragic and comic drama, including Aeschylean Tragedy (1996), Greek Drama and Dramatists (2002), and a complete edition of the comedies of Aristophanes with translation and commentary (1980-2003).
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