Monarch Notes, January 1st, 1963
Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Seven Against Thebes (467 B.C.) Background: Aeschylus won first prize for his Theban tetralogy, which included Laius, oedipus, Seven Against Thebes, and The Sphinx, a satyr-play. Of these, only Seven Against Thebes has survived. The play is rather static, simple in structure, and bombastic in many places. Themes: The theme that was probably basic to the whole trilogy, of which this play was the concluding one, no doubt was that the sins of the fathers are visited upon the sons, for the trilogy presented the downfall of Laius and his descendants. The theme and story, th...
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