by Eschyle · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782081336681
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«Les Perses» is the Greek tragedy by Eschyle, published by Flammarion in paperback (256 pages, in French).
Before the palace of the king of Persia, the council and the queen mother await news of Xerxes and his army, who have crossed the Hellespont to subdue Greece. A messenger announces the outcome. Eschyle composes a tragedy almost without action, between accounts and laments, where the victor's joy is balanced with compassion for the vanquished.
Edition with dossier, with an introduction by Danielle Sonnier and a translation by Danielle Sonnier and Boris Donné. Official edition for Prépas Scientifiques 2015, in the GF collection.
Edition intended for the Prépas Scientifiques 2015 program.
Aeschylus was an ancient Greek tragedian, often described as the father of tragedy. Academic knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier Greek tragedy is largely based on inferences made from reading his surviving plays. According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of characters in the theatre and allowed conflict among them. Formerly, characters interacted only with the chorus.
