Aeschylus: Persians

Performance (Video)

  • Reading and discussion at the Center for Hellenic Studies (2020) [YouTube]
  • Mid-quality video of outdoor Gorilla Theatre production (2010) [YouTube]
  • Poor-quality video of a (modern) Greek-language production [YouTube]

 

  • Documentary based on 2014 Genesius Guild production (Rock Island, IL), dir. Don Wooten [YouTube]

English Translations

  • K. O’Reilly (Oswestry: Fair Acre Press, 2019) [WorldCat]
  • J. Romm, in M. Lefkowitz and J. Romm (eds.), The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, Modern Library (NY, 2016) [Google Books preview]
  • A. Poochigian (tr.), Aeschylus: Persians; Seven against Thebes; and Suppliants (Baltimore, 2011)
  • C. Collard (tr.), Aeschylus: Persians and other Plays (Oxford, 2008) [Persians; Seven against Thebes; Suppliants; Prometheus Bound]
  • F. Raphael and K. McLeish, Six Greek Tragedies [incl. Persians and Prometheus Bound] (London: Methuen, 2002)
  • E. Hall (tr. and comm.) (Westminster: Aris & Phillips, 1996; repr. with addenda, 2007) [WorldCat]
  • J. Lembke and C. J. Herington (Oxford, 1981)
  • A. J. Podlecki (tr. and comm.) (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1970; repr. Bristol Classical Press, 1991)
  • G. Murray (London, 1939)
  • T. G. Tucker (Melbourne, 1935)
  • C. B. Armstrong (Dublin, 1927; repr. London, 1928)
  • J. H. Haydon (ed. and tr.), Aeschylus: Persae (London: W. B. Clive / University Tutorial Press, 1897)
  • E. S. Crooke (Cambridge, 1893)
  • T. Meyer-Warlowe, Aeschylus’ Persae (London, 1886)
  • J. Staunton, The Persians: A Popular Version from the Greek [with photos of Flaxman’s designs] (Warwick, 1873)
  • W. Gurney (Cambridge, 1873)
  • M. Wood (Cambridge, 1855)
  • Anon. [“A member of the University”], Persae (Cambridge, 1840)
  • T. Medwin, in Frazer’s Town and Country 37, vol. VII, Jan. 1833
  • W. Palin (London, 1829)

Adaptations

  • B. Brown, The Persians by Aeschylus (Ann Arbor: Displaced Press, 2011) [WorldCat] [short excerpt at the Poetry Foundation]
  • E. McLaughlin, The Persians: A Drama (New York: Playscripts, Inc., 2011) [a “moving and poetic adaptation”] [WorldCat] — DVD of 2006 performance of Shakespeare Theatre production, recorded for the Washington Area Performing Arts Video Archive [WorldCat]; collected in The Greek Plays [Persians; Iphigenia and Other Daughters; Trojan Women; Helen; Lysistrata] (New York / St. Paul, 2005) [WorldCat]
  • R. Auletta, The Persians: A Modern Adaptation of Persae (New York: Broadway Play Publ., 2006) [WorldCat]

Greek Texts and Commentaries

  • A. F. Garvie (ed.), Aeschylus: Persae (Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2009) [Review by Rosenbloom at BMCR]
  • E. Hall (Westminster: Aris & Phillips, 1996; repr. with addenda, 2007) [WorldCat]