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Aeschylus Persians The Ancient Law of hubris and at

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Euripides BacchaePerformance Issues Continued

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Agenda Recap & Update The Issues Clarify Themselves... Play and Background Persia, Persian War, Persians Discussion The Plays Take-Away? 26-Sep-11 Aeschylus Persians 3

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Recap & Update The Issues Clarify Themselves...

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Where Weve Got To... INTRO CLASS issues theory of tragedy performative approach ANTIGONE, ARISTOTLE tragedy perfected tragedys aims Dionysus? tragic origins affecting imitation 26-Sep-115 Aeschylus Persians

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Tragic Epiphany (C.J. Herington on Aeschylus) verbal ambiguity human visual clarity divine to

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Ancient Law of hubris and at koros (excess, extravagance) hubris (arrogance, violation) ate (delusion, ruin) dik (justice) 26-Sep-117 Aeschylus Persians

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Play and Background Persia, Persian War, Persians

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Xerxes (486465 BCE)

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Xerxes Bridge Hellespont / Dardanelles

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Xerxes somewhere here

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Persians: Play Facts Production 472 BCE Aeschylus (ca. 525-455 BCE) Choregus: Pericles Tetralogy Phineus Persians Glaucus of Pontiae Prometheus Play Setting: Susa Characters Chorus of Persian Elders Atossa-Queen Messenger Darius ghost Xerxes 26-Sep-1113 Aeschylus Persians

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Persians: Analysis PARODOS, Persian Elders (pp. 39 ff.) marching anapests lyric narrative, lament EPISODE 1 (44 ff.) Atossas dream Messenger speech (Salamis) STASIMON 1 (66 ff.) Xerxes recklessness Darius sorrow EPISODE 2 (68-69) Atossa to summon Darius ghost STASIMON 2 (69 ff.) Conjuration: Chorus raises dead EPISODE 3 + lyric dialogue (72 ff.) Darius gets bad news Darius, Atossa speak Chorus alternates: speech, song STASIMON 3 (82 ff.) Darius reign EXODOS (94 ff.) Xerxes enters, chanting Lyric dialogue: kommos (lament)

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Discussion Plays Take-Away?

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Journal Prompt What do you think the larger moral / message / take-away of this play was/is?