Aeschylus: The Persians

Informationen zum Autor Edith Hall is Professor of Classics at King's College, London. Her publications include Greek Tragedy and the British Theatre 1660-1914 (co-authored with Fiona Macintosh, Oxford University Press, 2005), and The Theatrical Cast of Athens: Interactions between Ancient Greek Drama & Society (Oxford University Press, 2006). Klappentext As the earliest surviving European drama, Persians is of incalculable interest to students of ancient literature. This edition offers facing translation, commentary and notes that focus on the visual and aural effects Aeschylus created, his extraordinarily rich imagery, and the play's unique contribution to Athenian democratic ideology. A ghost summoned with bizarre rituals from the underworld, the elaborate protocol of the Persian court, a thrilling eye-witness account of the battle of Salamis - as the earliest surviving European drama it is of incalculable interest for students of ancient literature: as the only extended account of the Persian wars by an author who fought in ...

Product details

• Authors: Aeschylus, Edith Hall
• Assisted by: Edith Hall (Editor)
• Publisher: Aris & Phillips
• Languages: Ancient Greek
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1996
• EAN: 9780856685972
• ISBN: 978-0-85668-597-2
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Classical Texts; Aris & Phillips Classical Texts; Aris & Phillips Classical Texts
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies