Author: Aeschylus Aeschylus

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-09-16

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9781528569590

Excerpt from The Suppliant Maidens, the Persians, the Seven Against Thebes, the Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus T he Persians has been placed second in this volume, as the oldest play whose date is certainly known. It was brought out in 472 b.c., eight years after the sea-fight of Salamis which it commemorates, and five years before the Swen against T hebes (467 It is thought to be the second play of a T ri logy, standing between the Phineus and the Glancus. Phineus was a legendary seer, of the Argonautic era Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old Land the play named after him may have contained a prophecy of the great conflict which is actually described in The Persae: the plot of the Glut/ens is unknown. In any case, The Persians was produced before the eyes of a generation which had seen the struggles, West against East, at Marathon and Thermopylae, Salamis and Plataea. It is as though Shakespeare had com memorated, through the lips of a Spanish survivor, in the ears of old councillors of Philip the Second, the dispersal of the Armada. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.