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«Les Perses» is the Greek tragedy by Aeschylus published by Les Belles Lettres in paperback within the Classiques en Poche collection, in a bilingual edition.
The action takes place in Susa in 480 BC, while the Persian elders and Queen Atossa await news of Xerxes. A messenger announces the defeat at Salamis; the ghost of Darius and Xerxes himself appear to show the consequences of hubris. It is one of the oldest Greek tragedies and shows the point of view of the vanquished.
First performed in Athens in 472 BC, the work was published in 2000 within the Classiques en Poche collection by Les Belles Lettres; the edition has 108 pages in bilingual text.
Aimed at students of Greek or French and readers of classical theatre who prefer a bilingual edition.
Aeschylus was an ancient Greek tragedian, often described as the father of tragedy. Academic knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier Greek tragedy is largely based on inferences made from reading his surviving plays. According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of characters in the theatre and allowed conflict among them. Formerly, characters interacted only with the chorus.
