The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of
the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and
satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving
work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander.
This final volume of the tragedies of Aeschylus relates the historic
defeat and dissolution of the Persian Empire on the heels of Xerxes
disastrous campaign to subdue Greece, the struggle between the two sons
of Oedipus for the throne of Thebes, the story of fifty daughters who
seek asylum from their uncle, the king of Egypt, because of his demand
that they marry his sons, and the well-known tale of the proud and
unrepentant Prometheus, who is chained to a massive rock for revealing
fire and hope to humankind.
Translations are by David Slavitt (Persians), Stephen Sandy (Seven
Against Thebes), Gail Holst-Warhaft (The Suppliants), and William
Matthews (Prometheus Bound).