Persians and Other Plays

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Aeschylus Christopher Collard (Emeritus Professor of Classics, University of Wales Swansea)

Persians and Other Plays

Aeschylus, Christopher Collard (Emeritus Professor of Classics, University of Wales Swansea)

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Oxford University Press
01 April 2009

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Plays & playscripts

Series: Oxford World's Classics

Aeschylus is the first of the great Greek playwrights, and the four plays in this volume demonstrate the remarkable range of Greek tragedy. Persians is the only surviving tragedy to draw on contemporary history, the Greeks' extraordinary victory over Persia in 480 BC.

The Persians' aggression is inhuman in scale, and offends the gods, but while celebrating the Greek triumph, Aeschylus also portrays the shock of the defeated with some compassion.

In Seven Against Thebes a royal family is cursed with self-destruction, in a remorseless tragedy that anticipates the grandeur of the later Oresteia.

Suppliants portrays the wretched plight of the daughters of Danaus, fleeing from enforced marriage; as refugees they seek protection, and must plead a moral and political case to gain it.

And in Prometheus Bound, Prometheus is relentlessly persecuted by Zeus for benefitting mankind in defiance of the god.

Christopher Collard's highly readable new translation is accompanied by an introduction that sets the plays in their original context, and together with the notes considers theatrical and poetic issues, as well as details of content and language.

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By: Aeschylus
Translated by: Christopher Collard (Emeritus Professor of Classics University of Wales Swansea)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 195mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 280g
ISBN: 9780192832825
ISBN 10: 0192832824
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 01 April 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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