This is a Brand New book in excellent condition. - Format: Paperback
- Author: Francis Mace
- ISBN10: 1521037558
- ISBN13: 9781521037553
Of Miltiades trial, it is too early to assess the repercussions. On his return to Athens Spring 493BCE , he has been prosecuted on a charge of tyranny in the Chersonese, a former Athenian colony. His daughter Elpinike finds herself cast in roles both divine and semi-scandalous. Both she and her father are outsiders, if less so than their enemies imply. The prosecutions case is reasonable and specious. Meanwhile Miltiades seems an unlikely defender of the democratic city and her values. Theres a kind of Tom and Viv or Perikles-Aspasia scenario, Elpinike having worked with her father on his speech. From a fevered city and international crisis, an olive grove near the Sacred Way provides a haven.at least for the younger daughter Kallidike. The drama On the Capture of Miletos, by Phrynichos son of Polyphrasmon, was produced in the same spring. The work provides insight into the psychological development, and genesis of an Athens that will be a paradigm, political and cultural, for future generations, and perhaps indeed in accordance with the prophecy , an eagle in the clouds forever. The present text represents an attempt to resuscitate this famous but lost and banned play.
