This excellent introduction to the six extant plays of Aeschylus is fully revised and updated; with additional further reading; ideal for the student unfamiliar with these earliest of Greek tragedies. Aeschylus is the oldest of the three great Greek tragedians and lived from 525/524 to 465/455. He took part in the battle of Marathon in 490 and probably also in the battle of Salamis in 480; the subject of his Persians. Working in chronological order of their first production; this volume explores Persians; the earliest Greek tragedy that has come down to us; Seven against Thebes; Suppliants; and the three plays of the Oresteia trilogy: Agamemnon; Libation Bearers and Eumenides. The book also contains an essay on Prometheus Bound; now generally thought not to be by Aeschylus; but accepted as his in antiquity.The volume is a companion to The Plays of Euripides (by James Morwood) and The Plays of Sophocles (by Alex Garvie) also available in second editions from Bloomsbury. A further essential guide to the themes and context of ancient Greek tragedy may be found in Laura Swifts new introductory volume; Greek Tragedy.
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