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"Many of the themes of Aeschylus' Suppliants - the treatment of refugees, forced marriage, ethnic and cultural clashes, decisions on war and peace, political deception - resonate strongly in the world of today. The play was, however, for many years neglected in comparison to Aes…
Prometheus bound
by Griffith, Mark, (Classicist), Aeschylus
fromCambridge Greek and Latin classics
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Politics, sex, and refugees in the ancient world. This book offers a provocative interpretation of a relatively neglected tragedy, Aeschylus's Suppliant Women. Although the play's subject is a venerable myth, it frames the flight of the daughters of Danaus from Egypt to Greece i…
Youth in tragedy's literary forebears and contemporaries -- Intergenerational conflict in the Aeschylean Prometheus -- The politics of age and integration in Sophocles' Antigone -- The cult of the young warrior in Euripides' Heraclidae -- Youth and limitations on personal author…
Youth in tragedy's literary forebears and contemporaries -- Intergenerational conflict in the Aeschylean Prometheus -- The politics of age and integration in Sophocles' Antigone -- The cult of the young warrior in Euripides' Heraclidae -- Youth and limitations on personal author…