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Aeschylus: PersiansCompanions to Greek and Roman Tragedy Aeschylus' Persians is the earliest extant Greek tragedy and sole surviving historical tragedy. Produced in 472 BC, the play tells the story of the defeat of the Persian king Xerxes in his attempt to expand his empire by conquering Greece and his return in rags to Persia to face the condemnation of his elders. The first product of the Western imagination to represent the causes and limits of imperialist conquest,

he came to turn away from his youthful ideas and licentious lifestyle

This reader contains selections from Tacitus

Είναι ώρα για παιχνίδι στο μεγαλύτερο λασπόλακκο του κόσμου

they chanced upon one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge ever seen: the library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal

Sophocles is represented by fragments of his paean Asclepius

προκαταλήψεις και φυλετικές διακρίσεις

the Virgilian text has created its own intertextual heritage

both author and text emerge as quite different from their grossly generalized reputations

are punished

Great interest lies in the imaginative metre and the archaic language of Plautus’ work

Είμαι ένοχη για όλα τα αμαρτήματα που μπορεί να φανταστεί η Εκκλησία ή η Αστυνομία

This volume offers a broad introduction to those exciting developments