Looking at Persians /

• Other Authors: Stuttard, David (επιμελητής, μεταφραστής), Αισχύλος
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
• Subjects: Αισχύλος, > Πέρσες.; Αισχύλος, > 525-456 > Θέματα, μοτίβα.; Ελληνικό δράμα (Τραγωδία); Λογοτεχνία και ιστορία > Ελλάδα; Ελλάδα > Ιστορία > Περσικοί Πόλεμοι, 500-449 π.Χ.

Aeschylus' Persians is unique in being the only extant Greek tragedy on an historical subject: Greece's victory in 480 BC over the great Persian King, Xerxes, eight years before the play was written and first performed in 472 BC. Looking at Persians examines how Aeschylus responded to such...