Aeschylean Tragedy

Aeschylus was the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world''s great art-forms. In this completely revised and updated edition of his book Alan H. Sommerstein, analysing the seven extant plays of the Aeschylean corpus (one of them probably in fact the work of another author) and utilising the knowledge we have of the seventy or more whose scripts have not survived, explores Aeschylus'' ...