Important figures from throughout history have been repeatedly betrayed, killed on the battlefield, or assassinated.

This is the only general introduction in English to Aeschylus' Oresteia, one of the most important and most influential of all Greek dramas. It discusses the Greek drama festival and the social and ...

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Pericles was lucky enough to be assigned to sponsor Aeschylus, the first of the great tragic playwrights. Aeschylus' play, 'The Persians' was considered a masterpiece and won first prize ...