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Aeschylus, 2: The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, the Suppliants, Prometheus Bound

Aeschylus, 2: The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, the Suppliants, Prometheus Bound

Bovie, Palmer
Slavitt, David R.
Slavitt, David R.

Paperback

Series: Penn Greek Drama

Fiction AnthologiesPlays

ISBN10: 0812216717
ISBN13: 9780812216714
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: Jan 1 1998
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander.

This final volume of the tragedies of Aeschylus relates the historic defeat and dissolution of the Persian Empire on the heels of Xerxes disastrous campaign to subdue Greece, the struggle between the two sons of Oedipus for the throne of Thebes, the story of fifty daughters who seek asylum from their uncle, the king of Egypt, because of his demand that they marry his sons, and the well-known tale of the proud and unrepentant Prometheus, who is chained to a massive rock for revealing fire and hope to humankind.

Translations are by David Slavitt (Persians), Stephen Sandy (Seven Against Thebes), Gail Holst-Warhaft (The Suppliants), and William Matthews (Prometheus Bound).

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