Aeschylean Tragedy

Sommerstein (Greek, U. of Nottingham) offers a guide to the surviving tragedies by Greek playwright Aeschylus (c. 525-456 BC) for students and other readers who do not read classical Greek, so renders all quotations in English. His perspectives are the life and times of Aeschylus, the tetrology, The Persians, the Theban plays, the Danaid plays, the Oresteia, the Prometheus plays, satyr-drama, slices from Homeric feasts, the gods and the world, Aeschylean drama and the political moment, and whether he wrote for his age or for all time. He incorporates scholarship and changes in his own ideas since the 1996 first edition, and provides references to modern scholarship to augment his bibliographical essay. Distributed in the US by International Publishers Marketing. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)