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Oresteian Trilogy

By: Aeschylus/Vellacott, Philip

Price: $2.00

Publisher: March 2014

Seller ID: 268145

ISBN: 203533

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Prometheus Bound and Other Plays: Prometheus Bound, The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, The Persians

By: Vellacott, Philip,Aeschylus,

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Publisher: Penguin Classics: August 1961

Seller ID: 97955

ISBN: 0140441123

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheus Bound the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punished by Zeus for daring to improve the state of wretchedness and servitude in which mankind is kept. The Suppliants tells the story of the fifty daughters of Danaus who must flee to escape enforced marriages, while Seven Against Thebes shows the inexorable downfall of the last members of the cursed family of Oedipus. And The Persians, the only Greek tragedy to deal with e...
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Author:Aeschylus

Oresteian Trilogy

Prometheus Bound and Other Plays: Prometheus Bound, The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, The Persians