Persians (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) - Softcover

Aeschylus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195070089 ISBN 13: 9780195070088

Verlag: OUP USA, 1991

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Book by Aeschylus

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Críticas:

[An] exciting, audacious, yet careful translation....Herington's scholarly evocation of the 'archaic wholeness of vision' supports the translation brilliantly. A very useful text. (Michael shaw, University of Kansas)

Reseña del editor:

The Persians, Aeschylus' earliest surviving tragedy, holds a fascination both for readers of Greek drama and Greek history. Not only is it the earliest existing play in the Western tradition, it is drawn directly from the playwright's own experiences at the battle of Salamis, making it the only account of the Persian Wars composed by an eyewitness. And as pure tragedy, it is a masterpiece. Aeschylus tells the story of the war from the Persian point of view, and his pride in the great victory of Greeks is tempered with a real compassion for Xerxes and his vanquished nation. Lembke and Harrington have rendered this stunning work in a modern translation that loses none of the original's dramatic juxtaposition of serenity and violence, hope and despair.

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• Verlag: OUP USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0195070089
• ISBN 13: 9780195070088
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144