Aeschylus's Suppliant Women : The Tragedy of Immigration /

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This book offers a provocative interpretation of a relatively neglected tragedy, Aeschylus's Suppliant Women. Although the play's subject is a venerable myth, it frames the flight of the daughters of Danaus from Egypt to Greece in starkly contemporary terms, emphasizing the encounter betwe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bakewell, Geoffrey W. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Aeschylus. > Suppliants > Criticism and interpretation.
Suppliants (Aeschylus)
Metics.
Emigration and immigration.
DRAMA > Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
Meteques.
Greece > Athens.
Athens (Greece) > Emigration and immigration.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Charter Myth for Metoikia
  • Spoken Like a Metic
  • The Cypriote Stamp
  • Sons of Earth
  • Conclusion.

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