Four Plays of Aeschylus

Four Plays of Aeschylus: The Suppliant Maidens - The Persians - The Seven Against Thebes - The Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus. Translated Into English Verse By E.D.A. Morshead MA. The surviving dramas of Aeschylus are seven in number though he is believed to have written nearly a hundred during his life of sixty-nine years from 525 B.C. to 456 B.C. That he fought at Marathon IN 750 and at Salamis in 480 B.C. is a strongly accredited tradition rendered almost certain by the vivid references to both battles in his play of The Persians which was produced in 472. But his earliest extant play was probably not The Persians but The Suppliant Maidens—a mythical drama the fame of which has been largely eclipsed by the historic interest of The Persians and is undoubtedly the least known and least regarded of the seven. Its topic—the flight of the daughters of Danaus from Egypt to Argos in order to escape from a forced bridal with their first-cousins the sons of Aegyptus—is legendary and the lyric element predominates in the play as a whole. (Amazon)