Aeschylus''s Suppliant Women - The Tragedy of Immigration

Informationen zum Autor Geoffrey W. Bakewell is professor of Greek and Roman studies and director of the Search for Values in Light of Western History and Religion Program at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. Klappentext Offers a provocative interpretation of a relatively neglected tragedy, Aeschylus's Suppliant Women. Although the play's subject is a venerable myth, it frames the flight of the daughters of Danaus from Egypt to Greece in starkly contemporary terms, emphasising the encounter between newcomers and natives. Although some scholars read Suppliant Women as modelling successful social integration, Geoffrey W. Bakewell argues that the play demonstrates, above all, the difficulties and dangers noncitizens brought to the polis.

Product details

• Authors: Geoffrey W Bakewell, Geoffrey W. Bakewell
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.08.2013
• EAN: 9780299291747
• ISBN: 978-0-299-29174-7
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Wisconsin Studies in Classics; Wisconsin Studies in Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies