num_pages: 232
description: This final volume of the tragedies of Aeschylus relates the historic defeat and dissolution of the Persian Empire on the heels of Xerxes disastrous campaign to subdue Greece, the struggle between the two sons of Oedipus for the throne of Thebes, the story of fifty daughters who seek asylum from their uncle, the king of Egypt, because of his demand that they marry his sons, and the well-known tale of the proud and unrepentant Prometheus, who is chained to a massive rock for revealing fire and hope to humankind.
language: English
title: Aeschylus 2: The Persians/Seven Against Thebes/The Suppliants/Prometheus Bound
titlecomplete: Aeschylus 2: The Persians/Seven Against Thebes/The Suppliants/Prometheus Bound
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Classics, Ancient, Drama, Mythology, Literature, Poetry, Greece
ratings_count: 8187
series: ანტიკური მწერლობა
publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press