- The
Persians (Ancient Gr****: Πέρσαι, Persai,
Latinised as
Persae) is an
ancient Gr****
tragedy written during the
classical period of
Ancient Greece by...
- Dionysia: thus, in 472 BC
Aeschylus won the
first prize with Phineaus,
Persae,
Glaucus and the
satyr play Prometheus.
Among Euripides’ entries, Haigh...
- The
earliest Gr****
papyrus yet
discovered is
probably that
containing the
Persae of Timotheus,
which dates from the
second half of the 4th
century BC and...
- 1925), p. 15. A.F. Garvie, Aeschylus:
Persae (Oxford
University Press, 2009), p. xliii. H.D. Broadhead, The
Persae of
Aeschylus (Cambridge
University Press...
-
Athenian tragedy is
demonstrated in a
number of p****ages
echoing Aeschylus's
Persae,
including the
epigrammatic observation that the
defeat of the
Persian navy...
- by G. Bert (Leipzig, 1888). C. J. F. S****e, Proleg. in Aphr.
Sapientis Persae sermones homileticos (Leipzig, 1879) J. Forget, De Vita et
Scriptis Aphraatis...
-
could not have been born
later than 492–1 and been of age to
present the
Persae in 472. He is not
recorded as
having taken part in the
Persian Wars of 480–79;...
- JSTOR 3063835. Goldhill,
Simon (1988). "Battle
Narrative and
Politics in Aeschylus'
Persae". The
Journal of ****enic Studies. 108: 189–193. doi:10.2307/632642. JSTOR 632642...
-
likely that
Aeschylus often,
though not
always (of the
surviving plays Persae is an
almost certain exception)
composed trilogies consisting of tragedies...
-
showing the bird-shaped
coronis at the
beginning of the "sphragis" in the
Persae of
Timotheus of Miletus.
Detail of P.Oxy. XV 1790 fr. 2 + 3 col. ii (late...
