Hardcover edition, which includes 4 works by the great Ancient Greek tragedian, Aeschylus.

The Suppliants: The Danaides, descendants of Io, flee with their father to Argos to escape forced marriages with their cousins, the sons of Egypt, who pursue them. The human anguish and deadlock, the moral dilemma, the dominance of the will of the gods.

The Persians: News of Xerxes' defeat in Greece reaches Susa, the capital of the Persians. The king's hubris was punished at Salamis, and it will be punished again at Plataea, as foretold by the ghost of Darius. A hymn to Greek bravery and virtue.

Prometheus Bound: Zeus harshly punishes Prometheus, who saved humanity from destruction. However, the Titan holds the secret that makes him stronger than the father of the gods. The symbolism of the unyielding against unjust violence of free thought, framed by elements of tradition and Orphism.

The Seven Against Thebes: The conflict between the sons of Oedipus for the throne of Thebes, in Aeschylus' quintessential martial drama. Eteocles refuses to surrender power to Polynices, and the latter leads a foreign army against his own homeland. At the seventh gate of Thebes, the two brothers confront each other and slay one another to affirm their father's curse "to share the kingdom with iron."

The volume includes ancient text, modern Greek translation, and commentary.