Persians and Other Plays
ISBN: 9780192832825
Méret: 129*195
Tömeg: 280 g
Oldalszám: 384
Megjelenés éve: 2009
Persians and Other Plays
Aeschylus is a towering figure in western literature, the first of the great Greek playwrights, a dramatist whose work still has the power to inspire and terrify readers and theatre-goers alike. The four plays in this volume demonstrate the full range and depth of Aeschylus's genius. Persians is the only surviving tragedy to draw on contemporary history, the Greeks' extraordinary victory over Persia in 480 BC. 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. And in the hugely influential 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; by comprehensive explanatory notes on the language, structure, and content of the plays, and by an up-to-date bibliography, five maps, and an index.
CONTENTS:
Introduction
Note on the Text
Bibliography
Chronology
PERSIANS
SEVEN AGAINST THEBES
SUPPLIANTS
PROMETHEUS BOUND
Maps
Explanatory Notes
Index
Sorozat: Oxford World`s Classics
Szerkesztő: Collard, Christopher
Kategória: Szépirodalom
































