August 18, 2020
Aeschylus’ play: Xerxes in Susa ‘The Persians’ (480 BCE): A Structural Analysis
Assignment 1: Write a structural analysis on Aeschylus’ Persians’. Aeschylus’ play, ‘The Persians’ (480 BCE), involves a narrative of six acts. The main theme is the interpreting of an historic event, the defeat of the Persians, in terms of Greek religious ideas, highlighted by the idea that Xerxes’ pride caused him to ignore prophecy and suffer the outcome. Opening scene:...