Aeschylus’s The Persians and our present
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Aeschylus's The Persians, above and beyond the conflict that the play evokes, offers itself as a thrênos, an uninterrupted lament in which its author meditates serenely on the devastating effects of violence, while showing the radical difference between two forms of government —tyranny/democracy—. These pages aim to see how this reflection might, perhaps, enlighten us in trying to resolve critical situations in our contemporary world, such as, for example, the war between Russia and Ukraine.
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