Alan H. Sommerstein is Emeritus Professor of Greek at the University of Nottingham, where he taught for forty years. His publications include editions with translation and/or commentary of all the extant and fragmentary plays of Aeschylus, thirteen fragmentary plays of Sophocles, all the extant plays of Aristophanes, and Menander's comedy The Woman from Samos. He has also published a general study of Aeschylean tragedy and is editor of the forthcoming The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy.

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• Introduction; 1. Aeschylus; 2. The Danaid myth; 3. The Danaid tetralogy; 4. Supplication; 5. Marriage; 6. Greek and barbarian; 7. King, people and tyrant; 8. Zeus and Io; 9. Characters and choruses; 10. Performance; 11. Place in Aeschylus' work; 12. Transmission and text; Sigla; ΑΙΣΧΥΛΟΥ ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ; Commentary.

Alan H. Sommerstein is Emeritus Professor of Greek at the University of Nottingham, where he taught for forty years. His publications include editions with translation and/or commentary of all the extant and fragmentary plays of Aeschylus, thirteen fragmentary plays of Sophocles, all the extant plays of Aristophanes, and Menander's comedy The Woman from Samos. He has also published a general study of Aeschylean tragedy and is editor of the forthcoming The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy.

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• Introduction; 1. Aeschylus; 2. The Danaid myth; 3. The Danaid tetralogy; 4. Supplication; 5. Marriage; 6. Greek and barbarian; 7. King, people and tyrant; 8. Zeus and Io; 9. Characters and choruses; 10. Performance; 11. Place in Aeschylus' work; 12. Transmission and text; Sigla; ΑΙΣΧΥΛΟΥ ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ; Commentary.

Alan H. Sommerstein is Emeritus Professor of Greek at the University of Nottingham, where he taught for forty years. His publications include editions with translation and/or commentary of all the extant and fragmentary plays of Aeschylus, thirteen fragmentary plays of Sophocles, all the extant plays of Aristophanes, and Menander's comedy The Woman from Samos. He has also published a general study of Aeschylean tragedy and is editor of the forthcoming The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy.

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• Introduction; 1. Aeschylus; 2. The Danaid myth; 3. The Danaid tetralogy; 4. Supplication; 5. Marriage; 6. Greek and barbarian; 7. King, people and tyrant; 8. Zeus and Io; 9. Characters and choruses; 10. Performance; 11. Place in Aeschylus' work; 12. Transmission and text; Sigla; ΑΙΣΧΥΛΟΥ ΙΚΕΤΙΔΕΣ; Commentary.