Looking at Persians /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Stuttard, David (επιμελητής, μεταφραστής), Αισχύλος
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction : Persians in context / David Stuttard
• Persians on stage / Paul Cartledge
• Athens and Persia, 472 BCE / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
• Persians' first audience / Robert Garland
• Imperial stirrings in Aeschylus' Persians / Sophie Mills
• Homeric echoes on the battlefield of Persians / Laura Swift
• Individual and collective in Persians / Michael Carroll
• Land, sea and freedom : the force of nature in Aeschylus' Persians / Rush Rehm
• The Persians love their children, too : common humanity in Persians / Alan H. Sommerstein
• Atossa / Hanna Roisman
• Theatrical ghosts in Persians and elsewhere / Anna Uhlig
• Words and pictures / Carmel McCallum Barry
• National Theatre Wales : The Persians (2010) / Mike Pearson
• Persians / Aeschylus ; translated by David Stuttard.