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Book Synopsis Looking at Persians by : David Stuttard
Download or read book Looking at Persians written by David Stuttard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aeschylus' Persians is unique in being the only extant Greek tragedy on an historical subject: Greece's victory in 480 BC over the great Persian King, Xerxes, eight years before the play was written and first performed in 472 BC. Looking at Persians examines how Aeschylus responded to such a turning point in Athenian history and how his audience may have reacted to his play. As well as considering the play's relationship with earlier lost tragedies and discussing its central themes, including war, nature and the value of human life, the volume considers how Persians may have been staged in fifth-century Athens and how it has been performed today. The twelve essays presented here are written by prominent international academics and offer insightful analyses of the play from the perspectives of performance, history and society. Intended for readers ranging from school students and undergraduates to teachers and those interested in drama (including practitioners), this volume also includes an accurate, accessible and performance-friendly English translation of Persians by David Stuttard.
Book Synopsis Looking at Persians by : David Stuttard
Download or read book Looking at Persians written by David Stuttard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aeschylus' Persians is unique in being the only extant Greek tragedy on an historical subject: Greece's victory in 480 BC over the great Persian King, Xerxes, eight years before the play was written and first performed in 472 BC. Looking at Persians examines how Aeschylus responded to such a turning point in Athenian history and how his audience may have reacted to his play. As well as considering the play's relationship with earlier lost tragedies and discussing its central themes, including war, nature and the value of human life, the volume considers how Persians may have been staged in fifth-century Athens and how it has been performed today. The twelve essays presented here are written by prominent international academics and offer insightful analyses of the play from the perspectives of performance, history and society. Intended for readers ranging from school students and undergraduates to teachers and those interested in drama (including practitioners), this volume also includes an accurate, accessible and performance-friendly English translation of Persians by David Stuttard.
Book Synopsis Looking Toward Salamis and The Persians of AEschylos by : William Cranston Lawton
Download or read book Looking Toward Salamis and The Persians of AEschylos written by William Cranston Lawton and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Persians written by Aeschylus and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Persians is both Aeschylus' first extant tragedy and the earliest surviving drama in the Western tradition. Because Aeschylus was there at the struggle between Greeks and Persians in the straits of Salamis in 480 B.C., the Persians is not merely a play but a valuable historical document. The description of the battle contained here is in fact the only account of any event in the Great Persian Wars that has been composed by an eyewitness. Lembke and Herington faithfully recreate in modern language Aeschylus' account of the frightful contrast between the human work of butchery and the serene, sunlit natural background of Salamis. Though critics have argued for centuries about the veracity of the historical details, Aeschylus' poetic vision makes the Persians a compelling dramatic experience--Jacket.
Download or read book Persians written by Aeschylus and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-20 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only surviving play of Aeschylus to be based on a historical event—the Greek victory at Salamis just a few years before the play was written—Persians appears in Deborah H. Roberts' brilliant new verse translation accompanied by her Introduction, Notes, Maps, and Chronology. Also included are newly translated excerpts from Herodotus’ Histories that should fascinate any reader of the play.
Book Synopsis Greek Perspectives on the Achaemenid Empire by : Janett Morgan
Download or read book Greek Perspectives on the Achaemenid Empire written by Janett Morgan and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the Greek view of Persia and Persians change so radically in the archaic and classical Greek sources that they turned from noble warriors into peacock-loving cross-dressers with murderous mothers? This book looks at the development of a range of responses to the Achaemenids and their Empire. Through a study of ancient texts and material evidence from the archaic and classical periods, Janett Morgan investigates the historical, political and social factors that inspired and manipulated different identities for Persia and the Persians within Greece.
Download or read book Persians written by Ruth Owen and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Persian cats originally came from what is modern day Iran. This breed of cat is usually crowned the most popular breed in the United States. A simple introduction to a top breed and a great reference for any young reader.
Book Synopsis The Ramessides, Medes, and Persians by : Emmet John Sweeney
Download or read book The Ramessides, Medes, and Persians written by Emmet John Sweeney and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ages in Alignment.
Book Synopsis Across Persia by : Eliot Crawshay-Williams
Download or read book Across Persia written by Eliot Crawshay-Williams and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sir John Chardin's Travels in Persia by : Sir John Chardin
Download or read book Sir John Chardin's Travels in Persia written by Sir John Chardin and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Year Amongst the Persians by : Edward Granville Browne
Download or read book A Year Amongst the Persians written by Edward Granville Browne and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume British orientalist Edward Granville Browne (1862-1926) recounts his impressions of Persian culture.
Book Synopsis A Year Amongst the Persians by : Edward Granville Browne
Download or read book A Year Amongst the Persians written by Edward Granville Browne and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Imagining Xerxes written by Emma Bridges and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Xerxes, the Persian king who invaded Greece in 480 BC, quickly earned a notoriety that endured throughout antiquity and beyond. The Greeks' historical encounter with this eastern king – which resulted, against overwhelming odds, in the defeat of the Persian army – has inspired a series of literary responses to Xerxes in which he is variously portrayed as the archetypal destructive and enslaving aggressor, as the epitome of arrogance and impiety, or as a figure synonymous with the exoticism and luxury of the Persian court. Imagining Xerxes is a transhistorical analysis that explores the richness and variety of Xerxes' afterlives within the ancient literary tradition. It examines the earliest representations of the king, in Aeschylus' tragic play Persians and Herodotus' historiographical account of the Persian Wars, before tracing the ways in which the image of Xerxes was revisited and adapted in later Greek and Latin texts. The author also looks beyond the Hellenocentric viewpoint to consider the construction of Xerxes' image in the Persian epigraphic record and the alternative perspectives on the king found in the Jewish written tradition. Analysing these diverse representations of Xerxes, this title explores the reception of a key figure in the ancient world and the reinvention of his image in a remarkable array of cultural and historical contexts.
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum by : British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Xerxes written by Richard Stoneman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this lively and comprehensive new biography, Richard Stoneman shows how Xerxes, despite sympathetic treatment by the contemporary Greek writers Aeschylus and Herodotus, had his reputation destroyed by later Greek writers and by the propaganda of Alexander the Great. Stoneman draws on the latest research in Achaemenid studies and archaeology to present the ruler from the Persian perspective."--Publisher's website.
Download or read book Everybody's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Athens and Persia in the Fifth Century BC by : Margaret C. Miller
Download or read book Athens and Persia in the Fifth Century BC written by Margaret C. Miller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-19 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First comprehensive collection of evidence of the relations between Athens and Persia in fifth century BC.
