The Plays of Aeschylus

The Plays of Aeschylus

A. F. Garvie
Our Price:  £3.99
List Price:  £15.99
Saving Of:  75%

Availability:  

  

In stock

Author:  A. F. Garvie
Condition:  New
Format:  Paperback
Pages:  128
Publisher:  Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year:  2010
ISBN:  9781853997075

Aeschylus is the oldest of the three great Greek tragedians. Born probably in 525 or 524 BC, he lived through the end of tyranny at Athens and the restitution of democracy. He took part in the battle of Marathon in 490 and probably also in the battle of Salamis in 480, the subject of his Persians. During his life he made at least two visits to Sicily, and died there at Gela in 456 or 455. Those who wish may believe the late story that he was killed by a tortoise, which an eagle dropped on his bald head, mistaking it for a rock on which to crack the tortoise's shell. This book deals with Aeschylus' six extant plays in the chronological order of their first production: Persians, the earliest Greek tragedy that has come down to us, Seven against Thebes, Suppliants, and the three plays of the Oresteia trilogy: Agamemnon, Libation Bearers and Eumenides. It also contains also an essay on Prometheus Bound, now generally thought not to be by Aeschylus, but accepted as his in antiquity. It is intended primarily as a readable introduction to the dramatist for A-level students of Classical Civilisation and Ancient History, and for the first two years of university courses.
It should be of interest also to students of other disciplines and to the non-specialist reader.

You may also like
Toller: Plays Two
Ernst Toller
Condition: New
£18.99   £5.99

A second collection of plays by German Expressionist Ernst Toller, based on the Holocaust and war-time experience.


Simon Gray: Plays 2: Otherwise Engaged; Dog Days; Molly; Plaintiff and Defendants; Two Sundays; Pig in a Poke; Man in a Side Car
Simon Gray
Condition: New
£16.99   £4.99

'A superbly written play, a funny play, an agonising play.


The Three Figaro Plays
Beaumarchais
Condition: New
£14.98   £3.99