Persians are people of Indo-European or Aryan origin that moved to the Iranian plateau from the east. The word "Persian" comes from the Persian word Parsa (its Arabic form is Fars), which referred to people from the region in the south of...
The Persians (Πέρσαι) is a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus. It is the oldest surviving play in Western literature. It is also notable for being the only extant Greek tragedy based on contemporary events. The Persians was part of...
Persian Brides by Dorit Rabinyan translated by Yael Lotan (Canongate, ISBN 0 86241 851 8) Israeli author Dorit Rabinyan's tragi-comic novel, Persian Brides, is a strikingly mature and polished debut. Set at the turn of the century in the Jewish quarter of...
The Persian Empire. By Lindsay Alien. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005, 224 pp., $39.95. Lindsay Allen's book is a must read for the scholar who is interested in the Persian Empire, the rise of Alexander the Great, and the biblical books of...
Why would five Iranian speedboats bluff an attack on a U.S. Navy squadron?Start with a big fact: Under the mullah-led thieves' regime, Iran has become an explosive political mix of ethnic, economic and ideological fragments, a mosaic powder keg.The Ayatollah Khomeini's 1979 Islamic Revolution failed,...
The U.S. Navy said Sunday that it was maintaining a stepped-up military presence in the Persian Gulf by keeping two aircraft carriers in the area amid tensions with Iran.The USS Nimitz and the ships in its strike group were expected within two days to replace...
In the following essays, Spatz discusses Aeschylus's life, his society, and the state of theater in his time, and provides an overview of the Persians, including analyses of its staging, diction, and imagery.
In the following essay, Herington summarizes the Persian Wars—explaining that Aeschylus's accounts of them are more those of a poet than a historian's—as well as describes the stage-set of the Persians and explores its themes.
