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The Persians is remarkable: it’s written for a Greek audience about their enemies, and it casts the audience’s enemies in such a sympathetic light as has perhaps never been done since. Having sympathy for your enemy is one of my highest spiritual goals. I wish I could have seen how the Athenians reacted to this play!
— Oct 25, 2023 08:46AM
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Levi Hobbs
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Prometheus Bound is the easiest to read, also quite strange: it’s about Hephaestus, alongside Might and Violence, binding Prometheus to a rock as punishment from Zeus for giving man fire and other technologies. It’s an underdog story where all the characters are gods.
— Oct 31, 2023 04:11AM
Levi Hobbs
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The Persians is a much more compelling play than the Suppliant Maidens. The terribly misfortunes that befell the Persian army one after another is riveting to read about in verse.
— Oct 27, 2023 11:11AM
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The Suppliant Maidens has an interesting historical bent, where it reveals some of the ancient interminglings between the Egyptian and Greek bloodlines.
— Oct 24, 2023 05:01AM
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Suppliant Maidens is believed to be the earliest Greek play that we have. (Many have been lost to time.) At this early stage of Greek tragedy, the chorus was the protagonist of the plot.
— Oct 24, 2023 04:48AM
