Aeschylus and Sophocles - Suppliants/Ajax

Aeschylus - The Suppliants

One of Aeschylus's earliest plays, " The Suppliants " is the first tragedy in an otherwise lost tetralogy. When Aegyptus tries to arrange marriages between his 50 daughters--the Chorus of Suppliant ...

Aeschylus, Robert Potter, Janet Lembke - The Persians

The second and only remaining tragedy from an otherwise lost tetralogy, " The Persians " is an early play based loosely on the Persian Wars. Rather than accurately dramatizing the war, Aeschylus ...