| re: THE PERSIANS live from Greece on Saturday at 1 pm |
| Posted by: singleticket 06:47 pm EDT 07/20/20 |
| In reply to: THE PERSIANS live from Greece on Saturday at 1 pm - JayG 06:39 pm EDT 07/20/20 |
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Thanks, don't know this play at all but I think I've read that it's often used as a proof of Athens' democratic ideals in its sympathetic portrayals of its enemies.
According to wikipedia this interpretation is up for debate:
Interpretations of Persians either read the play as sympathetic toward the defeated Persians or else as a celebration of Greek victory within the context of an ongoing war.[11] The sympathetic school has the considerable weight of Aristotelian criticism behind it; indeed, every other extant Greek tragedy arguably invites an audience's sympathy for one or more characters on stage. The celebratory school argues that the play is part of a xenophobic culture that would find it difficult to sympathize with its hated barbarian enemy during a time of war.[12] During the play, Xerxes calls his pains "a joy to my enemies" (line 1034). |
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