Prometheus Bound and Other Plays

Name: Prometheus Bound and Other Plays
Brand: Penguin Classics
SKU: 0140441123
Price: 339 INR
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ISBN: 9780140441123

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28 Aug, 2003

By Aeschylus(Author)

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 ...

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ISBN-10:

0140441123

ISBN-13:

9780140441123

Publisher

Penguin Classics

No.of Pages

160

Dimensions

7.8 X 5.08 X 0.35 inches

Description

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 by an introduction, with individual discussions of the plays, and their sources in history and mythology.

Product Details

ISBN-10

: 0140441123

ISBN-13

: 9780140441123

Publisher

: Penguin Classics

Publication date

: 28 Aug, 2003

About the Author

Aeschylus was born of noble family near Athens in 525 BC. He took part in the Persian Wars, adn his epitahp represents him as fighting at Marathon. He wrote more than seventy plays, of which only seven have survived.