<DIV><b> A new translation of four of Aeschylus's finest works. </B><br><BR> Illuminating the tragic grandeur for which Aeschylus has been celebrated, this fresh translation of <I>The Persians and Other Plays</I> shows how Aeschylus brought epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. <I>The Persians</I>, the only Greek tragedy to record events from recent Athenian history, depicts the final defeat of Persia in the battle of Salamis through the eyes of the Persian court. In <I>Prometheus Bound</I>, the defiant Titan Prometheus is punished by Zeus for daring to improve the state of servitude in which mankind is kept. <I>Seven Against Thebes</I> shows the inexorable downfall of the last members of the cursed family of Oedipus, while <I>The Suppliants</I> relates the pursuit of the fifty daughters of Danaus by the fifty sons of Aegyptus, and their final rescue by a heroic king.<br><BR><BR><BR></DIV>