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Aeschylus: Suppliant Women
A. J. Bowen
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Description for Aeschylus: Suppliant Women
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Aeschylus starts his tetralogy boldly, making the Danaids themselves prologue, chorus and protagonist. Guided by their father Danaus, these girls have fled from Egypt, where their cousins want to marry them, to seek asylum in Argos: they claim descent from Io, who was driven to Egypt five generations earlier when Zeus' love for her was detected by jealous Hera. In the long first movement of the play the Danaids argue their claim, pressing it with song and dance of pathos and power, upon the reluctant Argive king. He, forced eventually by their threat of suicide, puts the case to his ... Read more
Aeschylus starts his tetralogy boldly, making the Danaids themselves prologue, chorus and protagonist. Guided by their father Danaus, these girls have fled from Egypt, where their cousins want to marry them, to seek asylum in Argos: they claim descent from Io, who was driven to Egypt five generations earlier when Zeus' love for her was detected by jealous Hera. In the long first movement of the play the Danaids argue their claim, pressing it with song and dance of pathos and power, upon the reluctant Argive king. He, forced eventually by their threat of suicide, puts the case to his ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Aris & Phillips United Kingdom
Number of pages
374
Condition
New
Number of Pages
374
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781908343789
SKU
V9781908343789
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About A. J. Bowen
Anthony Bowen is an Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. From 1993 to 2007 he was Orator of the University. His publications include 'Aeschylus: Suppliant Women' and 'Plutarch: The Malice of Herodotus' for the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series, as well as the translation of 'Lacantius: Divine Institutes' (Liverpool University Press, 2004).
Reviews for Aeschylus: Suppliant Women
This is a fine commentary, in which the editor has omitted no point of significance or dispute. Colin Leach, Classics for All