Status Updates From Prometheus Bound and Other ...

Finished. Last play-Prometheus Bound-was the best of these four. Sad that the translation is published posthumously. Review coming eventually.

The Suppliants is odd in several ways. It's a story of runaway brides - 50 sisters. It's uneventful and a kind of boring and yet also curious and interesting as they plead for protection by reasoning they are in the right - and threatening mass suicide on sacred ground.

Finished Seven Against Thebes, the 3rd and only existing play of a trilogy. Was that humor - the women mourning how the fate of the seige is left up to the Gods while Eteocles pleads for action?

From intro: "...a remote and haunting text, whose august stance is hard to comprehend..."

Finishes Persians. Next is Seven Against Thebes. These are "original literary translations" - which means they aren't translations at all, but freeform rewrites, which is interesting but also a bit odd.