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Prometheus Bound and Other Plays 🔍
Penguin Group USA, Inc., 2010;2003
Aeschylus 🔍
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'Your kindness to the human race has earned you this.A god who would not bow to the gods' anger — youTransgressing right, gave privileges to mortal men' 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 events from recent Athenian history, depicts the aftermath of the defeat of Persia in the battle of Salamis, with a sympathetic portrayal of its disgraced King Xerxes. Philip Vellacott's evocative translation is accompanied...
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lgli/Z:\Bibliotik_\33\P\Prometheus Bound and Other Plays - Aeschylus.epub
Alternative title
Prometheus bound ; The suppliants ; Seven against Thebes ; the Persians
Alternative publisher
Random House, Incorporated
Alternative publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Alternative publisher
Penguin Random House LLC
Alternative publisher
Penguin Books
Alternative edition
Penguin classics, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England, 1961
Alternative edition
United States, United States of America
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lg_fict_id_2214393
date open sourced
2021-06-18
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