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Description: The Persians and Other Plays : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780140449990 : 014044999X : 23 Feb 2010 : Deals with events from Athenian history, and depicts the final defeat of Persia in the battle of Salamis. This work shows the inexorable downfall of the last members of the cursed family of Oedipus, and relates the pursuit of the fifty daughters of Danaus by the fifty sons of Aegyptus, and their final rescue by a heroic king. The Book Depository The Persians and Other Plays by Aeschylus - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk

 

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Author: Paula09

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Review: Really enjoyed this collection of plays. Easily accessible translation, with “normal” language and very detailed, informative background notes. The notes on the different fragments and how everything hangs together were particularly helpful. Can’t comment on the accuracy of the translations, as I’m no classical scholar. However, from a lay perspective, this version of Prometheus Bound was as good as, if not better than, another (expensive) version on Kindle. The Kindle formatting is not perfect, since the footnote references mess up the line spacing (a single line might be at three different heights), but that should be easy to rectify in an updated version and does not detract too much from the quality of the book.

 

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