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Supplices (The Suppliants) and its trilogy
1996
Overview
For many years, Aeschylus′Suppliceswas regarded by the great majority of classicists as the earliest extant Aeschylean play. The main basis for this view was the prominence of its Chorus, due not only to the high proportion of the play devoted to its songs but also to its central importance, as a group personality, to the dramatic situation with which the play is concerned. This feature (when treated without further discrimination), together with the limited degree of characterization involved in the roles assigned to the first and especially to the second actor, fitted the general awareness that Greek tragedy
