Prometheus Bound and Other Plays
Format: kindle
ASIN: B003TSEEES
Publish date: June 24th 2010
Publisher: Digireads.com
Pages no: 126
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Literature,
Cultural,
Plays,
Drama,
Theatre,
Poetry,
Greece,
Ancient,
Tragedy,
Mythology
The Persians and Other Plays is a collection of plays and commentary about plays by Aeschylus (525/4 - 456 BCE). The book contains the following: The Persians Seven Against Thebes The Suppliants Prometheus Bound Each play comes with a thorough introduction of the play itself as well as detail...
I recommend that you look at Terence's review at http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/250656447 , but I would like to add some remarks to his. Amongst these plays I much preferred The Persians . It opens with the elderly councilors to Xerxes who remained behind in Susa. They recall the pride and c...
Having recently read Caroline Alexander’s The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War, a wild hare came into my head to read Aeschylus’ Persians, which was mentioned in some connection with the book. My exposure to Greek playwrights is limited. In my infamous gra...
Required reading for a good Promethean pagan.
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