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Thursday, March 2, 2017

A Guide to ‘Persians’ by Aeschylus, the Western World’s Oldest Surviving Play

The play is a challenge to translate and interpret because of its alien grandeur and despair—almost half the play was sung or chanted while the chorus danced, but the Greek poetry and song are almost impossible to render into English. The desperate ...


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