num_pages: 253
description: Suppliants dramatizes the powerful story of the daughters of Danaos, determined not to be forced into marriage against their will. Seven Against Thebes vividly evokes the tensions in a city under siege, as Eteokles fends off an invading force led by his brother. Persians portrays with sympathy the sufferings inflicted on Persia when the Greeks defeated Xerxes; invasion force at Salamis. Prometheus Bound is an allegorical drama of cosmic strife between Zeus and Prometheus.
language: English
title: Suppliants and Other Dramas: Persians/Seven Against Thebes/Suppliants/Fragments with Prometheus Bound Traditionally Ascribed to Aischylos
titlecomplete: Suppliants and Other Dramas: Persians/Seven Against Thebes/Suppliants/Fragments with Prometheus Bound Traditionally Ascribed to Aischylos (Everyman's)
genres: Literature, Classics, Mythology, Drama, Greece, Ancient, Plays, Fiction, Poetry, Theatre
ratings_count: 8188
series: ანტიკური მწერლობა
publisher: Everymans Library