Capitolo 3
(_Pyth_. ix. 112: _Nem_. x. ll. 1-10). The Tartareans divide of the
history is, in fact, place-Aeschylean.
Suppliant _The Maidens_ is full of charm, although the text of the
it departs that describes the arrival of the pursuers to Argos it is full of
uncertainties. A fine remains, although archaic, poem, with this
special application on our interest that is, probably the first
poetic and existing play. We see in him the _tendency_ to grandiose
language, not yet it fully developed as in the _Prometheus_: the
inclination of youth to the simplicity and equal insipidity, in religious
and general speculation: and we still recognize, as in the germ, the
the deep theology of the _Agamemnon_ and a touch of the political one
vein that appears more fully in the _Furies_. If the precedence in
you calculate here it attributed to him it is right, the play is perhaps worth more
recognition that has received from the farmers of Shakespeare.
_The Persians_ has been put second in this volume as the
greater play whose certainly gives is known. You/he/she was revealed in 472
A.C., eight years after the sea-struggle of Salamis that it
he/she commemorates, and five years before the _Seven against Thebes_
(467 A.Cs.). You thinks that I/you/he/she am the second play of a Trilogy,,
being standing among the _Phineus_ and the _Glaucus_. Phineus was a
legendary clairvoyant, of the era of Argonautic--"Tiresias and Phineus,
prophets old"--and the play called as him you/they have been able to contain a
prophecy of the great conflict in which is described indeed
_The Persae_: the plot of the _Glaucus_ is unknown. In some case,
_The Persians_ was produced in front of the eyes of a generation that
you/he/she had seen the struggles, West against East, to Marathon and Thermopylae,
Salamis and Plataea. It is as if Shakespeare had commemorated,
through the lips of a Spanish survivor, in the ears of old man
councillors of Phillip the Secondo, the dispersion of the army.
Against the compassionate lack of the virility from to return
Xerxes, we can put well the serious and dignified patriotism of Atossa,