Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound and Other Plays

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Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound and Other PlaysPenguin Classics Prometheus Bound The Suppliants Seven Against Thebes The Persians. Aeschylus (525456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheus Bound the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punished by Zeus for daring to improve the state of wretchedness and servitude in which mankind is kept. The Suppliants tells the story of the fifty daughters of Danaus who must

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this is an essential play for students of classics

It is also one of only a handful of ancient novels to survive in any form

Stephen Halliwell makes this seminal work newly accessible with a reliable text and a translation that is both accurate and readable

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little knowing that he is the god Dionysus disguised as a mortal

for the benefit of less practised students taking GCSE or in their second year of Latin begun at University