Looking At Persians

Author : David Stuttard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350227941

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Looking at Persians by David Stuttard Pdf

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.

Author : David Stuttard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350227934

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Looking at Persians by David Stuttard Pdf

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.

Author : Janett Morgan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748647248

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Greek Perspectives on the Achaemenid Empire by Janett Morgan Pdf

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.

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0195070089

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Persians by Aeschylus Pdf

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.

Author : William Cranston Lawton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044085083715

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Looking Toward Salamis and The Persians of AEschylos by William Cranston Lawton Pdf

Author : Ruth Owen
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781477713556

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Persians by Ruth Owen Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Greece
ISBN : 1472593162

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Imagining Xerxes by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edward Granville Browne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Iran
ISBN : UOM:39015026728850

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A Year Amongst the Persians by Edward Granville Browne Pdf

Author : Richard Stoneman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300180077

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Xerxes by Richard Stoneman Pdf

"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.

Author : Edward Granville Browne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136184048

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A Year Amongst The Persians by Edward Granville Browne Pdf

First published in 1893, this is one of the great classics of travel. Going far beyond the record of a journey, it gives lively and entrancing descriptions of Persia and its people and is an infallible guide to modern Persian literature and thought. Written with tremendous enthusiasm by the greatest exponent of Persian life and letters of his day, it is a fascinating and instructive work.

Author : British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Vases
ISBN : UOM:39015081204888

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A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum by British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities Pdf

Author : Emmet John Sweeney
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780875865430

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The Ramessides, Medes, and Persians by Emmet John Sweeney Pdf

Author : Margaret C. Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521607582

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Athens and Persia in the Fifth Century BC by Margaret C. Miller Pdf

First comprehensive collection of evidence of the relations between Athens and Persia in fifth century BC.

Author : Charles Rollin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : History, Ancient
ISBN : PRNC:32101064228628

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The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Medes, Persians, Macedonians, the Selucidae in Syria & Parthians by Charles Rollin Pdf

Author : Sheil (Mary Leonora Woulfe)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : RMS:RMS1LSO$000002175$$$L

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Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia by Sheil (Mary Leonora Woulfe) Pdf