Research Catalog

Title

Aeschylus' Supplices : play and trilogy / A.F. Garvie.

Author

Garvie, A. F.

Publication

Bristol, UK : Bristol Phoenix, 2006.

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Details

Description

xxiii, 278 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

This book's first appearance (1969) was a full response to the publication (in 1952) of a papyrus fragment from Oxyrhynchus which indicated a late production date (in the 460s bc) for Aeschylus' trilogy 'Supplices', thus upsetting the previous scholarly consensus that it was an early work - indeed the earliest Greek tragedy to survive. There was, the book argued, no longer good reason to suppose that the play belonged to an early stage in its author's development. A final chapter also examines the evidence for reconstruction of the other, lost plays of the trilogy.

Series Statement

Ignibus paperbacks series

Uniform Title

• University press scholarship online.
• Ignibus paperbacks

Subject

• Aeschylus
• Danaus, King of Argos (Mythological character) > In literature

Note

• Previous ed.: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-251) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Chapter I The Papyrus 1 -- Chapter II Style 29 -- Chapter III Structure 88 -- Chapter V The Trilogy 163 -- Appendix The Punishment of the Danaids in the Underworld 234.

ISBN

1904675360 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 57166027
• SCSB-11405113

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library