Looking at Persians

David Stuttard is an independent scholar and Fellow of Goodenough College, UK. He has directed his own translations and adaptations of Greek drama throughout the UK and in classical theatres in Turkey and Albania. He is the founder of the theatre company Actors of Dionysus and has edited six 'Looking at' volumes for Bloomsbury: Agamemnon (2021), Ajax (2019), Antigone (2017), Bacchae (2016), Medea (2014), Lysistrata (2010).

• ForewordIntroduction – Persians in Context (David Stuttard, Goodenough College, UK)1. Persians on Stage (Paul Cartledge, University of Cambridge, UK)2. Athens and Persia, 472 BCE (Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Cardiff University, UK)3. Persians’ First Audience (Robert Garland, Colgate University, USA)4. Imperial Stirrings in Aeschylus’ Persians (Sophie Mills, University of North Carolina at Asheville, USA)5. Homeric Echoes on the Battlefield of Persians (Laura Swift, The Open University, UK)6. Individual and Collective in Persians (Michael Carroll, University of St Andrews, UK)7. Land, Sea and Freedom: The Force of Nature in Aeschylus’ Persians (Rush Rehm, Stanford University, USA)8. The Persians Love Their Children Too: Common Humanity in Persians (Alan Sommerstein, University of Nottingham, UK)9. Atossa (Hanna Roisman, Colby College, Maine, USA)10. Theatrical Ghosts in Persians and Elsewhere (Anna Uhlig, University of California, USA)11. Words and Pictures (Carmel McCallum-Barry, formerly of University College, Ireland)12. National Theatre Wales, The Persians (2010) (Mike Pearson, University of Aberystwyth, UK)Aeschylus Persians, translated by David Stuttard (Goodenough College, UK)NotesBibliographyIndex