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By Aeschylus

ISBN-10: 0141915811

ISBN-13: 9780141915814

‘Your kindness to the human race has earned you this.
A god who wouldn't bow to the gods’ anger – you
Transgressing correct, gave privileges to mortal men’

Aeschylus (525–456 BC) introduced a brand new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, elevating it to the prestige of excessive paintings. In Prometheus Bound the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punished through Zeus for bold to enhance the nation of wretchedness and servitude within which mankind is saved. The Suppliants tells the tale of the fifty daughters of Danaus who needs to flee to flee enforced marriages, whereas Seven opposed to Thebes exhibits the inexorable downfall of the final participants of the cursed kin of Oedipus. And The Persians, the single Greek tragedy to house occasions from contemporary Athenian historical past, depicts the aftermath of the defeat of Persia within the conflict of Salamis, with a sympathetic portrayal of its disgraced King Xerxes.

Philip Vellacott’s evocative translation is observed by means of an creation, with person discussions of the performs, and their resources in background and mythology.

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