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The Persians and Other Plays: The Persians / Prometheus Bound / Seven Against Thebes / The Suppliants
Aeschylus
The Persians and Other Plays: The Persians / Prometheus Bound / Seven Against Thebes / The Suppliants
Aeschylus
Deals with events from Athenian history, and depicts the final defeat of Persia in the battle of Salamis. This work shows the inexorable downfall of the last members of the cursed family of Oedipus, and relates the pursuit of the fifty daughters of Danaus by the fifty sons of Aegyptus, and their final rescue by a heroic king.
304 pages, maps
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | November 26, 2009 |
ISBN13 | 9780140449990 |
Publishers | Penguin Books Ltd |
Pages | 304 |
Dimensions | 130 × 196 × 19 mm · 234 g |
Language | English |
Translator | Sommerstein, Alan H. |
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