1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910136516303321

Autore

Aeschylus

Titolo

The libation bearers / / AEschylus

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Lanham, Maryland] : , : Dancing Unicorn Books, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-5154-0940-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (53 p.)

Disciplina

882.01

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction; Dramatis Personae; The Libation Bearers

Sommario/riassunto

Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or performed, the others being Sophocles and Euripides. He is often described as the father of tragedy: our knowledge of the genre begins with his work and our understanding of earlier tragedies is largely based on inferences from his surviving plays. Only seven of his estimated seventy to ninety plays have survived into modern times. Fragments of some other plays have survived in quotes and more continue to be discovered on Egyptian papyrus, often giving us surprising insights into his work.