After an introduction by the chorus of elders in this play, the former queen describes her dream of two women in fine dress yoked to a chariot; when one breaks her reins, the queen's son is tossed from the chariot and rends his cloak. Then a messenger arrives to tell Atossa that her son has survived a terrible naval defeat, leading her to visit the tomb of her husband, whose ghost rebukes his son for hubris, particularly in his futile attempt to build a bridge of ships across the Hellespont. Pro
After an introduction by the chorus of elders in this play, the former queen describes her dream of two women in fine dress yoked to a chariot; when one breaks her reins, the queen's son is tossed from the chariot and rends his cloak. Then a messenger arrives to tell Atossa that her son has survived a terrible naval defeat, leading her to visit the tomb of her husband, whose ghost rebukes his son for hubris, particularly in his futile attempt to build a bridge of ships across the Hellespont. Produced in 472 BCE with funding by Pericles, FTP what is this earliest extant work by Aeschylus which chronicles the defeat of the title invaders led by Xerxes?
After an introduction by the chorus of elders in this play, the former queen describes her dream of two women in fine dress yoked to a chariot; when one breaks her reins, the queen's son is tossed from the chariot and rends his cloak.
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