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Seven Against Thebes read - this is a strange play. The greater part of the play is taken up by an accounting of the 7 champions of the attackers and the 7 opposing champions, preceded by a chorus representing the panicked women reproached by their king for spreading their panic. The play does not compare well with the Oresteia of Sophocles.

The Suppliants read - I must say that I did not find this play at all boring. Though it may be somewhat less dramatic than Prometheus Bound, it contains passages of beauty. And the sequence where Pelasgus is dutifully trying to figure out what is going on is quite good; particularly when he realizes what a bad position the arrival of Io's descendants has put him in.

Prometheus Unbound read - it is such a shame that we do not have the remaining two plays in this trilogy. I wonder to which degree the rather dramatic events were actually staged. Did they use stage props, or was it all left to the audience's imagination?

After returning in time 9 centuries to read Hokoji I now go back 26 centuries to read 4 of Aeschylus' plays in Philip Vellacott's translation.

The Suppliants: "For the weaker side bold speech is out of space."

"Cunning is feebleness beside Necessity."

Starting The Persians.

Finished reading the play The Supplicants. Starting the play Seven Against Thebes.

Seven against is interesting, I want to read Sophocles though and compare

Finished 'Prometheus Bound'