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Aeschylus: Suppliant Women
Aeschylus
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Description for Aeschylus: Suppliant Women
Paperback. Aeschylus' Suppliant Women begins with a procession of girls, dressed in foreign costume and carrying boughs - tokens of supplication - arriving in Argos. Fugitives from Egypt they are in flight from their cousins, the sons of Aegyptus, who want them as wives and they seek asylum from King Pelasgus. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 374 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 510.
Aeschylus starts his tetralogy boldly, making the Danaids themselves prologue, chorus and protagonist. Guided by their father Danaus, these girls have fled from Egypt, where their cousins want to marry them, to seek asylum in Argos: they claim descent from Io, who was driven to Egypt five generations earlier when Zeus' love for her was detected by jealous Hera. In the long first movement of the play the Danaids argue their claim, pressing it with song and dance of pathos and power, upon the reluctant Argive king. He, forced eventually by their threat of suicide, puts the case to his ... Read more
Aeschylus starts his tetralogy boldly, making the Danaids themselves prologue, chorus and protagonist. Guided by their father Danaus, these girls have fled from Egypt, where their cousins want to marry them, to seek asylum in Argos: they claim descent from Io, who was driven to Egypt five generations earlier when Zeus' love for her was detected by jealous Hera. In the long first movement of the play the Danaids argue their claim, pressing it with song and dance of pathos and power, upon the reluctant Argive king. He, forced eventually by their threat of suicide, puts the case to his ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Aris & Phillips Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
374
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Aris & Phillips Classical Texts
Condition
New
Weight
510g
Number of Pages
374
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781908343345
SKU
V9781908343345
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About Aeschylus
Anthony Bowen is an Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. From 1993 to 2007 he was Orator of the University. His publications include 'Aeschylus: Suppliant Women' and 'Plutarch: The Malice of Herodotus' for the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series, as well as the translation of 'Lacantius: Divine Institutes' (Liverpool University Press, 2004).
Reviews for Aeschylus: Suppliant Women
This is a fine commentary, in which the editor has omitted no point of significance or dispute. Colin Leach, Classics for All