Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes

Name: Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes
Author: Aeschylus

by Aeschylus

EN·~2 hours

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Language

Duration

~2 hours (159K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Suzanne Lybarger, Turgut Dincer, Brian Janes, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net.

Release date

2008-12-08

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Tragedies Prometheus (Greek deity) -- Drama Seven against Thebes (Greek mythology) -- Drama Polynices (Greek mythological figure) -- Drama Eteocles, King of Thebes (Mythological character) -- Drama Thebes (Greece) -- Drama

About the author

Aeschylus

-525–-456

Among the earliest great tragedians of ancient Greece, he helped shape drama into a serious art form. His surviving plays, including the Oresteia, still feel grand, tense, and full of questions about justice, power, and the gods.

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