The Persians
by:
Aeschylus (author)
Robert Potter (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B0014Z5YH4
Pages no: 92
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Literature,
Cultural,
War,
Plays,
Drama,
Theatre,
Poetry,
Greece,
Ancient,
Tragedy
This is actually quite an unusual Greek play in that it does not deal with a mythological event. Granted Aristophanes deals with historical events, but he wrote comedy as opposed to tragedy (and I have explained elsewhere what is meant by Greek Tragedy). Excluding Aristophanes, The Persians is the o...
Xerxes should have read the art of war.
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