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Persians: Critical Essay by C. J. Herington

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Aeschylus
About 38 pages (11,357 words)
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SOURCE: Herington, C. J. Introduction to Persians, by Aeschylus, translated by Janet Lembke and C. J. Herington, pp. 3-29. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.

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.

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