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Aeschylus was the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art-forms. In this completely revised and updated edition of his book Alan H. Sommerstein, analysing the seven extant plays of the Aeschylean corpus (one of them probably in fact the work of another author) and utilising the knowledge we have of the seventy or more whose scripts have not survived, explores Aeschylus' poetic, dramatic, theatrical and musical techniques, his social, political and religious ideas, and the significance of his drama for our own day. Special attention is paid to the "Oresteia" trilogy, and the other surviving plays are viewed against the background of the four-play productions of which they formed part. There are chapters on Aeschylus' theatre, on his satyr-dramas, and on his dramatisations of Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey", and a detailed chapter-by-chapter guide to further reading. No knowledge of Greek is assumed, and all texts are quoted in translation.
Contents
Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition Note to the Reader 1. The Life and Times of Aeschylus 2. Aeschylus' Theatre 3. The Tetralogy 4. The Persians 6. The Danaid Plays 7. The Oresteia 8. The Prometheus Plays 9. Aeschylean Satyr-drama 10. Slices from Homeric Feasts 11. Aeschylus, the Gods and the World 12. Aeschylean Drama and the Political Moment 13. Of An Age, or For All Time? Genealogies Bibliographical Guide References Index of Passages Cited General Index
