Aeschylus - Seven Against Thebes

You can listen here for free Seven Against Thebes. Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity), Plays, . You can also listen to the full version (full text) online without registration and SMS on the site Audiobook-mp3.com or read the summary, preface (abstract), description and read reviews (comments) about the work.

Author: Aeschylus

Genres: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity), Plays,

06.12.2019

1:10:03

236

Set sleep timer

Sleep timer Reading will stop after

0 hours

20 minutes

Enable timer

Aeschylus - Seven Against Thebes book summary

Seven Against Thebes - description and summary of the book. , listen for free online at the digital library site Audiobook-mp3.com

In this, the only extant tragedy from Aeschylus' trilogy about the House of Oedipus, Thebes is under siege from Polynices, a former prince of Thebes. After King Oedipus left his city and cursed the princes, Polynices and his brother, Eteocles, decided to rule alternately, switching at the end of every year. However, at the end of his year as king, Eteocles refused to turn power over to his brother and exiled him, fulfilling his father's curse that the two brothers could not rule peacefully. In the action of the play, Polynices and a group of Argive soldiers are attacking Thebes so that he can take his place as ruler. Eteocles must combat both the foreign forces outside the walls and the crazed, frightened women within. Note: The ending of this play is suspect. The lines Antigone and Ismene's entrance to the end may have been added later, either after Sophocles' Theban plays became popular or in the Middle Ages. (Summary by Libby Gohn)

Narrator: Charlotte DuckettEteocles: Daniel VimontChorus 1: Elizabeth KlettChorus 2: Libby Gohn Spy: Cynthia Moyer Anigone: Amanda Friday Ismene: Caprisha Page Herald: Alan Mapstone