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Aeschylus' first surviving play about real people and events in 480 B.C.

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9781647921804

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"""The musicality of Deborah Roberts' translation of Aeschylus' Persians, the earliest Greek tragedy that has come down to us, rivals the playwright's own astonishing lyricism. She crafts extended speeches by the drama's characters into captivating set-pieces of performance poetry. Roberts also replicates Herodotus' celebrated storytelling energy in her translation of the passages from his Histories included in this volume. In her Introduction, Roberts examines Aeschylus' drama and Herodotus' representations of Persian culture as crucial records of ancient Greek conceptions of otherness and perceptively appraises the Persians itself as a sober contemplation upon the shared human toll of political ambition and warfare’s traumas and grief, making this book urgently relevant to contemporary audiences."" —James Bradley Wells, PhD, Edwin L. Minar Professor of Classical Studies, DePauw University"

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Deborah H. Roberts is Professor Emerita of Classics and Comparative Literature, Haverford College.

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