Aeschylus Persae / with introduction and commentary by A. F. Garvie

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Èsquil, 525 aC-456 aC

Contributor(s):

Garvie, A. F [ed.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009Description: LXI, 398 p.; 25 cmISBN:

9780199269891

Other title:

Persae

Other title: PersaeSubject(s):

Contents:

Conté: Introduction: Historical Tragedy -- Political Tragedy? -- Persae as a Tragedy -- Structure -- Style -- The Tetralogy -- Staging -- The Syracusan Production -- Manuscripts. Text: Hypothesis -- Persae. Commentary: Metrical appendix -- Select bibliography -- Indexes: I. Greek words -- II. General

Summary: " Aeschylus' Persae, first produced in 472 BC, is the oldest surviving Greek tragedy. It is also the only extant Greek tragedy that deals, not with a mythological subject, but with an event of recent history, the Greek defeat of the Persians at Salamis in 480 BC. Unlike Aeschylus' other surviving plays, it is apparently not part of a connected trilogy. In this new edition A. F. Garvie encourages the reader to assess the Persae on its own terms as a drama. It is not a patriotic celebration, or a play with a political manifesto, but a genuine tragedy, which, far from presenting a simple moral of hybris punished by the gods, poses questions concerning human suffering to which there are no easy answers. In his Introduction Garvie defends the play's structure against its critics, and considers its style, the possibility of thematic links between it and the other plays presented by Aeschylus on the same occasion, its staging, and the state of the transmitted text. The Commentary develops in greater detail some of the conclusions of the" Introduction.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Llibre	Biblioteca Barcelona	Biblioteca Barcelona BCN Lliure Accés	875 ESQ per (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		1900085374

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" Aeschylus' Persae, first produced in 472 BC, is the oldest surviving Greek tragedy. It is also the only extant Greek tragedy that deals, not with a mythological subject, but with an event of recent history, the Greek defeat of the Persians at Salamis in 480 BC. Unlike Aeschylus' other surviving plays, it is apparently not part of a connected trilogy. In this new edition A. F. Garvie encourages the reader to assess the Persae on its own terms as a drama. It is not a patriotic celebration, or a play with a political manifesto, but a genuine tragedy, which, far from presenting a simple moral of hybris punished by the gods, poses questions concerning human suffering to which there are no easy answers. In his Introduction Garvie defends the play's structure against its critics, and considers its style, the possibility of thematic links between it and the other plays presented by Aeschylus on the same occasion, its staging, and the state of the transmitted text. The Commentary develops in greater detail some of the conclusions of the" Introduction.

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