Persae (Aeschylus)

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Looking at Persians

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Introduction : Persians in context /David Stuttard --Persians on stage /Paul Cartledge --Athens and Persia, 472 BCE /Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones --Persians' first audience /Robert Garland --Imperial stirrings in Aeschylus' Persians /Sophie Mills --Homeric echoes on the battlefield of …

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Looking at Persians

by Aeschylus

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"Aeschylus' Persians is unique in being the only extant Greek tragedy on an historical subject: Greece's victory in 480 BC over the great Persian King, Xerxes, eight years before the play was written and first performed in 472 BC. Looking at Persians examines how Aeschylus respo…

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Looking at Persians

by Aeschylus

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"Aeschylus' Persians is unique in being the only extant Greek tragedy on an historical subject: Greece's victory in 480 BC over the great Persian King, Xerxes, eight years before the play was written and first performed in 472 BC. Looking at Persians examines how Aeschylus respo…

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Looking at Persians

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"Aeschylus' Persians is unique in being the only extant Greek tragedy on an historical subject: Greece's victory in 480 BC over the great Persian King, Xerxes, shortly before the play was written and first performed in 472 BC. Looking at Persians examines how Aeschylus responded…

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The Emptiness of Asia: Aeschylus' "Persians" and the history of the fift…

by Harrison, Thomas

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"Aeschylus' Persians is not only the first surviving Greek drama. It is also the only tragedy to take for its subject historical rather than mythical events; the repulse of the army of Xerxes at Salamis in 480 B.C." "Thomas Harrison here provides both a more satisfying literary …

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The emptiness of Asia: Aeschylus' Persians and the history of the fifth …

by Harrison, Thomas

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"Aeschylus' Persians is not only the first surviving Greek drama. It is also the only tragedy to take for its subject historical rather than mythical events; the repulse of the army of Xerxes at Salamis in 480 B.C." "Thomas Harrison here provides both a more satisfying literary …

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The emptiness of Asia: Aeschylus' Persians and the history of the fifth …

by Harrison, Thomas

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Aeschylus' ""Persions"" is the first surviving Greek drama. This book provides aims to provide both a more satisfactory reading of the ""Persians"" and a richer picture of fifth-century history - the history both of events and ideology

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Tragic pathos: pity and fear in Greek philosophy and tragedy

by Munteanu, Dana LaCourse

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"Scholars have often focused on understanding Aristotle's poetic theory, and particularly the concept of catharsis in the Poetics, as a response to Plato's critique of pity in the Republic. However, this book shows that, while Greek thinkers all acknowledge pity and some form of…

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Tragic pathos: pity and fear in Greek philosophy and tragedy

by Munteanu, Dana LaCourse

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Scholars have often focused on understanding Aristotle's poetic theory, and particularly the concept of catharsis in the Poetics, as a response to Plato's critique of pity in the Republic. However, this book shows that, while Greek thinkers all acknowledge pity and some form of …

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Tragic pathos: pity and fear in Greek philosophy and tragedy

by Munteanu, Dana LaCourse

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"Scholars have often focused on understanding Aristotle's poetic theory, and particularly the concept of catharsis in the Poetics, as a response to Plato's critique of pity in the Republic. However, this book shows that, while Greek thinkers all acknowledge pity and some form of…

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Tragic pathos: pity and fear in Greek philosophy and tragedy

by Munteanu, Dana LaCourse

fromCambridge books online

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"Scholars have often focused on understanding Aristotle's poetic theory, and particularly the concept of catharsis in the Poetics, as a response to Plato's critique of pity in the Republic. However, this book shows that, while Greek thinkers all acknowledge pity and some form of…