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Prometheus Bound - a text about limits--of wandering, of understanding, of prediction, of necessity, of suffering, of the world. --the heraclitean polemos, the boundary, the principle of differentiation itself as later envisioned by Heidegger.

Seven Against Thebes - a text regarding the solicitation of the polis by means of xenotic signifiers.

The Persians - an exercise in magnanimity: a veteran of Marathon presents to other veterans the enemy's receipt of its total defeat at Salamis, with sympathy rather than mockery. Central affront, if there is one, is the empire's attempt to 'yoke' the continents together at the Hellespont, apparently some sort of primal impiety worthy of nemesis.

Suppliant Maidens - Danaids flee forced marriage in Egypt, ask for asylum, the standard dilemma of humanitarian intervention paired with the risk of stasis, considering that the Danaids claim Argive citizenship via the rape of Io.