The emptiness of Asia: Aeschylus' Persians and the history of the fifth century

"Aeschylus' Persians is not only the first surviving Greek drama. It is also the only tragedy to take for its subject historical rather than mythical events; the repulse of the army of Xerxes at Salamis in 480 B.C." "Thomas Harrison here provides both a more satisfying literary r...

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1. Verfasser: Harrison, Thomas (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Duckworth 2000
Ausgabe:1. publ.
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Zusammenfassung:"Aeschylus' Persians is not only the first surviving Greek drama. It is also the only tragedy to take for its subject historical rather than mythical events; the repulse of the army of Xerxes at Salamis in 480 B.C." "Thomas Harrison here provides both a more satisfying literary reading of the Persians and a richer picture of fifth-century history - the history both of events and of ideology."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:191 S.
ISBN:0715629689

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