Aeschylus: Seven Against Thebes by Isabelle Torrance (Paperback, 2007)

Bristol Classical Press

Brand new copy of Aeschylus' \""Seven Against Thebes\"" (Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy), published in 2007 in Great Britain by Bristol Classical Press, 174pp, ISBN 978-0715634660\nAbout this book: One of our earliest surviving Greek tragedies, Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes is an extraordinarily rich poetic text. It dramatises the civil war between the sons of Oedipus Polynices - the exile, and Eteocles - reigning king of Thebes. Polynices marches on Thebes to regain his throne along with six other champion warriors and their armies, but the expedition is doomed, and the meaning of Oedipus' enigmatic curse on his sons ultimately becomes clear through their simultaneous fratricide and the extinction of the Theban house. This book places the drama within the context of the connected trilogy of which it was a part. It investigates the play's tensions between city and family and the omnipresence of curse and ritual within the religious and political environment of f;