Aeschylus Plays: I: The Persians , Prometheus Bound , The Suppliants and Seven Against Thebes (Classical Dramatists)
By Aeschylus.
Description
Classic plays reissued in the new Methuen Greek Classics series in a new distinctive styleThe Persians; based on the destruction of the Persian invaders in 480BC, breaks with the Greek tradition of purely dramatising myths to deals with the recent past and with characters who would have been familiar to its first audience in 472BC; Prometheus Bound stages the stand off between the original rebel and hero Prometheus and almighty Zeus; Suppliants, follows the plight of Danaus and his daughters, in flight from a fateful marriage contract with the King of Egypt's sons and shows the triumph...
ISBN(s)
0413651908, 9780413651907
