The Persians (Dodo Press)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781409961796 (1409961796)
Publish date: February 1st 2009
Publisher: Dodo Press
Pages no: 54
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.