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Penguin Classics: The Persians and Other Plays

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Deals with events from Athenian history, and depicts the final defeat of Persia in the battle of Salamis. This work shows the inexorable downfall of the last members of the cursed family of Oedipus, and relates the pursuit of the fifty daughters of Danaus by the fifty sons of Aegyptus, and their final rescue by a heroic king.

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Penguin Classics: The Persians and Other Plays, Aeschylus, Alan H. Sommerstein

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Title
Penguin Classics: The Persians and Other Plays
Language
English
Publisher
Penguin Books
Released
2009
Pages
250
ISBN10
014044999X
ISBN13
9780140449990
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Deals with events from Athenian history, and depicts the final defeat of Persia in the battle of Salamis. This work shows the inexorable downfall of the last members of the cursed family of Oedipus, and relates the pursuit of the fifty daughters of Danaus by the fifty sons of Aegyptus, and their final rescue by a heroic king.